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INSTITUTION 



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Formed by the Officers of the American Army of the Revolution, 



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NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY. 



JOHN SCHU\ LER, 




ins iii' i ''!■■ 1 111 sociF/n i\ not 



NEW YORK, 



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< >i the eldest male descendants through the maternal Ime. 



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John Tyler t looper 201 

rhomas I >e Witt Cuyler 

Anthony Walton White Evans 34 () 

Van Home Floyd 325 

Griffith Pritchard Griffith 343 

Wickham Hoffman 168 

William Swetland ECetchum 310 

John McDougall Laurence 

wis Livingston 249 

John Isaac Plume 

Paul Ernest Tiemann 148 

John Y.111 VorSt 319 

Jolin Beekman Westbrook 150 



PREFACE. 



Since the organization of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, 
resolutions appear upon the minutes, authorizing the publication of their trans- 
actions, on the 9th of February, 1 7S4; 4th of July, 1S10; 4th of July, 1828; 4th 
of July, 1S46, and on the 2 2d of May, 1873. when, on motion of Mr. Crosby, 
the following was adopted: 

Resolved, That the Institution of the Society, together with the abstracts of the proceedings 
of the General Society and the New York Stale Society down to the present time, also a full list 
of the members of this Society, together with the revised By-laws, be printed to the number of 
five hundred copies, under the direction of the Secretary. 

The Secretary at that time, Marinus Willett, reported that the full list of 
members accredited to New York could not be correctly ascertained from the 
fact that the original roll was lost. The Society then appointed Mr. Schuyler, 
Mr. Tapp and the Secretary a Committee to ascertain and verify the names of 
the original members of the New York State Society, and they, after corre- 
sponding with the descendants of several of the former Secretaries, succeeded 
in finding the original Roll in a trunk of old papers belonging to Dr. Marcellin, 
the former Secretary, and which hail been, since his decease, in the posses-ion 
of a daughter of his, living in Illinois. At the Annual Meeting in 1877 this 
Committee made a full report and replaced the original Roll among the 
Archives of the Society. Mr. Hamilton. General Cochrane and Mr. Schuyler 
were thereupon appointed a Committee to have the same reproduced, and the 
following was adopted at the same time: 

" That for the purpose of availing ourselves of the labor of Ihese Committees, by publishing 
the results of their work for the use of the members of the Society, these Committees be consoli- 
dated, and that the members of the Joint Committee be John Schuyler, Marinus Willett, Edward 
W. Tapp, Alexander Hamilton and John Cochrane, together with the President, who shall under- 
take and perform the duties aforesaid and also the republication of the proceedings of the Society 
at present published in book form." 

On the following 7th of March the Joint Committee met ami resolved 
itself into a Sub-Committee, consisting of Mr. Schuyler and the President, to 
carry out the instructions of the resolution, and 

On the 4th of July, 1879, the Secretary, Mr. Willett, resigned, and at his 
request Mr. Schuyler was elected in his place. 

At the next Annual Meeting the By laws, which had been revised and 
recommended by the Standing Committee, were adopted and ordered to be 



printed, and at tl the 4th of July. rk- 

idded i" the Sub-Committi 
motion of Mr. Hamilton, at the 1 
held on the 14th of D ;, the following insl 

iphical sketches for tin tion: 

imittee, in 

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in the Army of (lie I -'nil 

i| ho c, that it should be merely a statemenl I lu.-Ulandi. 

them. 

In accordance with the above the work lias been 

.. showing tl 
proposed b) Knox, and as it was finally adopted, together with extra 

■ 1 the proceedings of General Meetings, by the President General, the 

ish. 
Ill, 5i 3 ety, returned to the Gener; 

in 1784 and 1- ' Honorary Members admitted by and 

from the minutes of the New York Stati b) the 

from the or. the same to the 

-, alphabetically arranged, of the original meml 
ty ami those of the othei 
• 1 its Roll, compiled and arranged by t : .ry, 

the vario I by 

tlu-r kind and generous frii irder. 

It will b I, that the rank affixed to th< - that 

ime they their res: the 

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d in the state 

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pamphlet published in ! 

1 of the 
with the signatui nal 



PREFAI I . \i 

members, several of the hereditary members who have succeeded them and 
several of the Honorary Members who were admitted previous to the year 
1850, when it disappeared from the archives of the Society. It will be noticed, 
that several of the original members of the other State Societies also affixed 
their signatures to it, without reference to the order of their admission. Several 
of the original members subscribed their names to the fly-leaf, before the 
Institution. The names of Joseph Morrell, Aaron Burr, Gouverneur Morris, 
Joseph Browne, John M. Mason, Samuel Cooper, and the Marquis. Du Quesne 
are not signatures, but appear to have been entered upon it, by the Secretary, 
they having, with the exception of the Marquis Du Quesne, signed the New 
Roll, which was on the 4th of July, 1791, commenced with the signature of the 
Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and which also was subsequently signed by 
Lieut, limit William Scudder, Jacob Morton, Ensign John Greaton, William 
Constable, Jacob Bradford, Brigham Howe, Captain Samuel Mansfield and 
William S. Popham. 

JOHN SCHUYLER, 

Secretary. 
New York, June, 1887. 



The Society of the Cincinnati. 



The first suggestion of the organization into a society of the officers of the 
American Army of the Revolution appears in a paper, in the handwriting of 
General Knox, entitled " Rough draft of a Society to be formed by the American 
officers, and to be called the 'Cincinnati.'" It is dated "Westpoint, 15 April, 

1783." 

This paper, circulated among the officers of the army, then lying on the banks 
of the Hudson, in the neighborhood of Newburgh (in the State of New York), is 
understood to be referred to in the preamble to the institution of the " Society of 
the Cincinnati" as the "proposals" which had "been communicated to the 
several regiments of the respective lines." It is printed herein in parallel columns, 
with the "Institution," as reported by the committee to which the "proposals" 
were referred, and as adopted May 13, 1783. 

The original paper of General Knox, and the " Institution" as adopted, both 
aimed at some bond which would still unite those who for long years had shared 
the hardships of the camp and the dangers of many a battlefield, now about to 
separate, many of them penniless, to find homes ruined, and families dis- 
persed or dead: they sought some tie that should bring them together at inter- 
vals, in social reunions — above all they sought the means of providing for the 
necessities of the more unfortunate of their number, and for the support of the 
indigent widows and children of deceased associates. They wished that their 
children should inherit and maintain the friendship which bound them together. 
And conscious of their disinterestedness and proud of their claim to public 
gratitude and consideration, they followed in the line of that desire for recog- 
nition which is the life of the soldier's ambition, and adopted a " badge " or 
"order" to be worn by the members, and which, in but too many instances, was 
all that they might transmit as a visible, actual inheritance to their children. 

But this was too much for the civilian politicians, who had secured a country 
and a field for political ambition, without any of the dangers or privations of the 
camp. 

For eight years the army had stood between them and the enemy. The 
enemy gone — what need of the army? It may become dangerous; it is poor; 
the soldiers may become the objects of popular favor, and may interfere with 
our tenure of office — we will withhold pay, dismiss and disperse them. And so 
they did. And then came forth the outcry against the innocent purpose of these 
poor, unpaid, homeless and penniless soldiers of an occasional reunion, and of 
the opportunity of contributing to each other's wants and necessities. 

Ancient classical history was overhauled for pseudonyms under which those 
who had been protected from danger from the enemy might assail the objects 



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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 5 

of the promoters of the Society to be the overthrow of the Republic and the 
usurpation of supreme power. " They have laid in ruins," said he, "that state 
" of civil equality which our laws and the nature of a Republican government 
•• promised us." That "the Cincinnati would soon have and hold an exclusive 
" right to offices, honors and authorities, civil and military." The evils were 
deep-rooted and past remedy, for the parties to the great iniquity were powerful, 
designing and numerous. "The number of Peers," said he, "is not far short 
" of ten thousand,* and every generation will be adding to their numbers." 

fudge Burke, although the first, was not alone in the assault. Pamphlets 
were the channel through which overpowering patriotism found its way to the 
public eve, and several made their appearance. But the expressions of hostility 
were not confined to pamphlets, and mightier men than Judge Burke entered 
the lists. 

Mr. Jefferson saw in the Society opposition to the " letter of some of our 
Constitutions and to the spirit of all of them" — opposition to "the natural 
equality of man." He considered it " the germ whose development is one 
" day to destroy the fabric we have reared," and that " the day will certainly 
" come when a single fibre left of this Institution will produce an aristocracy 
" which will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in 
" the world." And while, in writing to Washington, he does not avow it as a 
principle of action with himself, still his suggestion that " in competitions for 
office, on equal or nearly equal ground, Congress may give silent preferences to 
those who are not of the fraternity," is significant of the extent of his own hos- 
tility, and possibly foreshadows some subsequent acts. Many years later he 
claimed that the expression used by himself in a famous letter, of " the Samsons 
" in the field and Solomons in Council, but who had had their heads shorn by the 
" harlot England," was " meant for the Cincinnati generally." He declares him- 
self to have been "an enemy to the Institution from the first moment of its con- 
" ception," considered " their meetings objectionable," and " the charitable part of 
" the Institution still more likely to do mischief," and advised them to " distri- 
" bute their funds, renounce their existence," and " melt up their eagles." 

To Samuel Adams' watchful and suspicious mind, the association presented 
"an odious hereditary distinction of families, "a plan disgustful to the 
" American feeling." And because " one of the Order had received a majority 
" of the votes " in the town of Boston for an elective office, the old Patriot was 
" afraid the citizens were not so vigilant as they used and still ought to be." 

John Adams considered it " the deepest piece of cunning yet attempted ; it 
" is sowing the seeds of all that European Courts wish to grow up among us, viz., 
" of vanity, ambition, corruption, discord and sedition." At a later period in 
life, and in reply to a complimentary address from the Society in South Carolina, 
he spoke of them as " enjoying the sweetest of rewards in the grateful affection 
of their fellow-citizens," and forgetful of the Pandora's box which he had 
thought the Society would inevitably prove, he closed by saying, " When the 
" Cincinnati of South Carolina pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred 
" honors, I believe no man will doubt their integrity." 

* Tin- original number ol I he I ini innati was less than one-fourth <»t the number whi« h Judge Burke's 
imaginative mind feared, l-'.u h generation has lessened their number, At present they do not exceed four 
hundred. 



Mil -.K || I \ 01 I III CINCINNATI. 

Dr. Franklin ridiculed them as " Chevaliers ol Cincinnatus," and conden 
them as " forming an ordei ol Hereditary Knights "; but s 
.in honorary membership of thi 

John Jay thought that the "( Irder will eventually divide us into twi 
factions." With and consistency, in a reply perhaps also 

ol charai teristic quaintness of sarcasm to a suggestion to be< ome an honorary 
member of the Society, he said that " he was neither young enough nor 

mgh i" desire that honor." 

The denunciation was not confined to individuals. Governois al of 

the States presented the Society to the consideration and censure of the I • 
latures; some of whom directed inquiries, and others passed h 
rhe General Court ol Massachusetts resolved that "th< was unjusti- 

•• liable, and, if not properly discountenanced, might be dangerous to tl 
" liberty and safety of the Unil neral, and this State in partii ular." 

With the history of the Society f< >r a century <>f quiet, steady, pursuit of its 
objects before us, its extinct branches, and its diminished numbers, it is difficult 
t.i comprehend the existence, or the extent of the pr< ii< li was aro 

.u^\ had become 

Washington's name si |, subscribed by his own hand, the fust on the roll 

He had been requested, and had consented to as Pre- 

sident. He had b lizant of the motives and of the proci rhich led 

to the formation of the Hi knew the innocence and purit] 

those motives, and lie apprehended no results less innocent or less pure. H( 
knew the honesty, thi ty, the devoted patriotism of the men who had 

formed the Society, and had no fears that the Republic would receive harm at 
their hands. The Ul which had been excited in the public mind had 

not, however, tailed to attract his attention. 1 [e was not only a member of the 

iety, but, although divested of all official position, he was not a mere pri\ 
1 Iti. 

He felt, perhaps :tively. the violence of the popular clamor, and 

was willing to ma ssions to the prevailing excitement, which in the li.uht 

of history, it must be admitted were conceived in an overestimate of the reality 
and of the honesty of the hostility to the Sot iety. " However ill-founded." S 
Marshall, "the public prejudices might be. he Washington) thought th - 
" in which they ought to 1 and if it should be found impracticable 

vince the people that their tears were misplaced, he was disposed ' to 
•• yield to them. in a degree, and not sutfer that which was intended for the ; 
5, to produce a bail one.' " 

I'n blingol t I il Meeting in May, 1784, he prepared 

a paper to the Institution, which n ated to | 

ral Mi 1 ting. M ' in a pi 

Amended Institution which that meeting recommended for adoption by the 

Thi ling the prevailing excitement, as 

1, withheld their approval and ratification of the p: unendnu 

and tini' '. n how purely imaginary and groundless and ephemeral w< 

the appn sand the pre- and how unnecessary was the 

a hi< h the proposed amendnn I have m . 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 7 

A meeting of the General Society was to be held in May, 1787. In October, 
1786, Washington addressed a circular letter to the several State Societies, in 
which he says: 

" As it will not be in my power (for reasons which I shall have the honor of immediately 
' ' communicating) to attend the next General Meeting ; and as it may become more and more 
" inconvenient for me to be absent from my farms, or to receive appointments which will divert 
" me from my private affairs ; I think it proper also to acquaint you, for the information of 
" your Delegates to the General Meeting, that it is my desire not to be reelected to the Presidency, 
" since I should find myself under the necessity of declining the acceptance of it. * * * ' 

" The variety and perplexity of my own private concerns, which, having been much deranged 
" by my absence through the war, demand my entire and unremitting attention ; 
" the natural desire of tranquility, and relaxation from business, which almost everyone experi- 
" ences at my time of life, particularly after having acted (during a considerable period) as no idle 
" spectator in uncommonly busy and important scenes ; and the present imbecility of my health, 
" occasioned by a violent attack of the fever and ague, succeeded by rheumatick pains (to which 
" till of late I have been an entire stranger), will, I doubt not, be considered as reasons of 
" sufficient validity to justify my conduct in the present instance. 

" Although the whole of these reasons could not have before operated ; yet in conformity to 
" my determination of passing the remainder of my days in a state of retirement, I should 
" certainly have refused to accept the office of President with which I was honored in 1784, but 
" from an apprehension that my refusal, at that time, might have been misrepresented as a kind of 
" dereliction of the Society on my part, or imputed to a disapprobation of the principles on which 
" it was then established. To convince the opposers of the Institution, should any such 
" remain, that this was not the fact ; and to give no colourable pretext for unreasonable attacks, I 
" prevailed upon myself to accept the appointment with a view of holding it only until the next 
" election ; before which time I expected the jealously that had been excited, would subside, and 
" this, I am happy to be informed, has universally taken place. 

"It only remains for me to express the sense I entertain of the honor conferred by the last 
" General Meeting in electing me their President, and to implore in future the benediction of 
" Heaven on the virtuous associates in this illustrious Institution. 
" I have the honor to be, 

" Your most obedt. & most Hble Sent, 

" GO. WASHINGTON." 

He longed for retirement, and in his letter he touched feelingly and 
modestly upon what he had done. But his work was not completed ; he had 
secured for the Colonies their independence ; they were separate associated 
States, independent each of the other, and of foreign control, claiming sovereignty 
without the power or the means of exercising or enforcing its attributes in their 
separate, and still less in their associated capacity ; but they had, yet, no national 
consistency. 

Commissioners from some of the States, assembled in Annapolis in the 
Autumn of 1786, had recommended the appointment of Commissioners from 
all the States, to meet in Philadelphia on the second Monday of the succeeding 
May, " to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise 
" such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render theConsti- 
" tution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union, etc." 

The General Assembly of Virginia passed an act for the appointment of 
deputies to the proposed Convention, and Mr. Madison, in communicating to Gen. 
Washington the measures which had been adopted in Virginia, said, " It has 
" been thought adviseable to give this subject a very solemn dress, ami all the 
" weight which could be derived from a single State. This idea will also be pur- 



S I HI SOCIETY "1 I III I l\i IS\ \ I I 

" sued in the selection of chai I Virginia in the i I on- 

•■ vention. You will infer our earnestness on this point from the liberty whit h 
•• will In placing your name at the head of them." 

•• Vltho G leral in reply, "I have bid i the 

"public walks of life, ami had resolved nevermore t" tread tli.it the. lire. 
•■ it upon an interesting io the well-being of the Confederacy, it 

"hail been the wish of the Assembly that I should I" in the 

"business of revising the federal system. 1 should, from ,, 
" tion I am under for repeated pro n me, more than from any 

••opinion I could entertain of my usefulness, have obi all; but I 

•• out of my power to do this with any degr< ■ then 

to his having been rechosen President of the Cincinnati Society, and that the 
triennial meel : tj is to be held in Philadelphia in M 

the same place and month named for the meeting of the federal Convent 
his letter procei - me particulai nbining with the peculiar 

situation of my private concerns, the ni attention to them, 

"a wish for retirement and relaxation from publ and rheumatic pains 

••which 1 begin to feel very sensibly, induced me. on the 31st ultimo, to addl 
"a circular letter to each State Society, informing them of my intention not to 
"be at the next meeting, and of my desire not to 1" ent. 

'• * * * Under these circumstances it will be readily perceived that 1 could 
•• not appear at the same time and place on any other occasion without 

(fence to a very respectable ami deserving part of the community — the 
" late officers of the American army." 

Notwithstanding this letter, thi Legislature of Virginia unanimous 
him to be a member of the Convention, placing his the first of the seven illus- 
trious names selected: ami M ommunicating to him the action of the 
I gislature, anil acknowledging the letter above cited. s a \s : •• It was the opinion 
"of every judicious friend whom I consulted that your name could not be 
"spared from the deputation to the meeting in May, at Philadelphia." 

Washington's reply, dated 16th December, 1786, enters into a ful 
ment of the rations which appeared to him 

of the appointment made by the General Assembly of Virginia 

jned in his circular letter to the Cincinnati S 
attendance at their meeting in the following May, there existed* 
which •• he communicates. lie then refers to the formation of 

the Cincinnati Society, the honesty of its purposes, and the charil . 
objects: thai ind alarm had arisen: thai I id the irrit.it 

which he feared would arise, he had exerted himself t 
had been recommended by the General '> 1 May, 1 

had not '■ l'he part " (he says) " tli tl i 

"would be di Id feel myself in an awkward situal 

•• Philadelphia on another publii n during I 

Replying il announcement by Governor Ran.' 

" * * * Then mi- 

ll rendei 
Ltible with other m ■ hi< h I had pi 

intimate friends and powerful influi 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 9 

the appointment, and that "a suspense of his ultimate determination would be 
nowise inconvenient in a public view." 

On 3d February, 1787, he wrote to General Knox, in reply to an inquiry as 
to his intentions respecting the Federal Convention : " In confidence, I inform 
" you that it is not, at this time, my intention to attend it ;" that having objected 
to the use of his name for the appointment, " they again pressed and I again 
" refused, assigning, among other reasons, my having declined meeting the 
" Society of the Cincinnati at that place, about the same time, and that I thought 
" it would be disrespectful to that body, to whom I owe so much, to be there on 
" any other occasion." * * * "I have been requested in emphatic terms 
" not to decide absolutely " — " thus the matter stands, saying to you in confidence 
" that at present I hold to my first intention not to go." 

In reply to a letter from Governor Randolph, Washington, under date of 
28th March, after adverting to the determination he had previously expressed, 
and his reluctance to leave home, and to be " swept back into the tide of public 
affairs," and, to the "unusual degree of solicitude" expressed by his friends, 
he says, " I have come to a resolution to go, if my health will permit." " I 
"would set off for that place" (Philadelphia) "the 1st or 2d of May, that I 
" might be there in time to account personally for my conduct to the General 
" Meeting of the Cincinnati, which is to convene the first Monday of that month. 
" My feelings would be much hurt if that body should otherwise ascribe my 
"attending the one and not the other to a disrespectful inattention to the 
" Society, when the fact is that I shall ever retain the most lively and affectionate 
" regard for the members of it on account of their attachment to me and 
" uniform support upon many trying occasions, as well as on account of their 
" public virtues, patriotism and sufferings." 

In common with very many other thoughtful and patriotic statesmen, Wash- 
ington was not without misgivings as to the proposed Convention, and so late 
as the 31st March he writes to Madison : " I am glad to find that Congress have 
"recommended the States to appear in the Convention. I think that the reasons 
"in favour have a preponderance over those against it." 

On 2d April he wrote to Knox : " As I see, or think I see, reasons for and 
" against my attendance in Convention so near an equilibrium as will cause me 
"to determine upon either with difficulty." * * * "If I should attend the 
"the Convention I will be in Philadelphia previous to the meeting of the Cin- 
"cinnati." ***** "Will the modifications and alterations" (those 
proposed in 1784) "be insisted on in the next meeting or given up? If the 
" former, will it not occasion warmth and divisions ? If the latter, and I should 
"remain at the head of this order, in what light would my signature appear in 
" recommendations having different tendencies ? In what light will this versa- 
" tility appear to the foreign members who perhaps are acting agreeably to the 
" recommendations ?" 

Having determined to attend both the meeting of the Cincinnati and the 
Convention, as he was preparing to leave home that he might be present at the 
former meeting, on Hoe. first Monday of May (the Convention being called to 
meet on the second Monday in the same month), he received on 26th April, by 
express, intelligence that his mother and sister were dangerously ill. 

He then addressed the following letter to General Knox, the Secret. n\ 
General of the Society of the Cincinnati : 



IO I III SOCIETY OF THI \ I I. 

" N -• :tli Apr! i - 

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to the wishes of man) "( my friends who 

d to be holden in Philadelphia th May.— 

with a rheui 

■• | ha\ my departure ; and had ma 

"the purpose when (within this hour) I amsummom 
" is t<> be lost, t,, sri .1 mother and 
" expin 

"well to a much loved Brother who was the int 
■innate friend of my ripened 
"Tl ore than one hundred miles) in th will, I 

" am persuaded, unfit me for the intended trip to Philadctph 
ng that tribute of respect to my compatri 

!nir attachment to, and support of me upon so many tr 
"For this purpose it was, as I had, tho' with a jjikhI deal 

tion that our affairs were verging fast to ruin, to depart from the resolution I 
pping out of the walks of private life) : 
" mined to shew n to theGen'l meetingof the S< 'luring 

"its sitting— As the latter is prevented, and the highest probability the olhci 
: such papers as have, from time to time come to my I 

eration of the Cincinnati, to your care." * * * 
■■ I ■ ler of my affectionate regards for the mi 

" meeting of ll ntiments of the 1 m, 

" I am — My 'lear Sir 

'Yr l lb It H 

i WASHING i i 
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\\ ishington, being thus delayed, di<l not reach Philadelphia by the first \ 
day ol Ma) (the 7th). on which day tl the Cincinnati met, ten 

ited. 
The Fedei il Convention, although called for t 1 ; Monda) of Ma) 

(the 14th , failed to obtain : nt number of members in attendan 

ntation of a majority of thi until the 25th Ma 

which < ' ntion 

■veil .mil 1 t" business. 

In the mean time the meeting of the Cini innati had completed tlu-ir luis: 
and had adjourned on the n I May.having unanimously 1 

r.il W 

1 had written to Washington from Paris 14th Novemb 
ncing tli ' innati in unm 

article from thi h it is 

ite that hi 

own with them," adding, •• I tl 
it material to as much as possible." 

This ined unanswered until »'hi n w ashi 

■ I, intimal of the 

•• insomuch that it is comin I, truth 

"and falsehood are so intimately blended, that it difficult to 



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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. II 

" sever them." He points out some circumstances " in the narration, of which 
" palpable mistakes seem to have insinuated themselves." He refers to his having 
been appointed by his native State to attend the Convention, then in session, and 
thus being present in Philadelphia at the time of the General Meeting of the 
Cincinnati and being again elected President, "after which I was not at liberty 
" to decline the Presidency, without placing myself in an extremely disagreeable 
'-"hiitMation with relation to that brave and faithful class of men, whose per- 
" sever ing patriotism and friendship I had experienced on so many trying 
" occasions." 

On 7th September, 1788, more than fifteen months after his third election 
to the Presidency of the Society, he wrote: " I have once been a witness to what 
" I conceived to have been a most unreasonable prejudice against an innocent 
"institution. I mean the Society of the Cincinnati. * * * I was convinced 
" that the members, actuated by motives of sensibility, charity, and patriotism, 
" were doing a laudable thing in erecting that memorial of their common ser- 
" vices, sufferings, and friendships." 

In May, 1789, in reply to a congratulatory address, presented by a Committee 
of the Cincinnati Society to him, then recently inaugurated President of the 
United States, he said; "The candour of your fellow-citizens acknowledges the 
" patriotism of your conduct in peace, as their gratitude has declared their 
"obligations for your fortitude and perseverance in war. A knowledge that 
" they now do justice to the purity of your intentions, ought to be your highest 
" consolation as the fact is demonstrative of your greatest glory." 

If further evidence be needed to confute the assertion, which has gone into 
" history" and for a time was assiduously circulated, that Washington had with- 
drawn his confidence from the Society, and that he refused the Presidency, it 
may be found in the record of his official acts — receiving and signing official 
letters and documents through succeeding years — and in his successive elections 
as President in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799. 



THE INSTITUTION 



OF 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 



Cantonment of the American Army, / 
On Hudson' s River, 10//1 May, 1783. \ 

Proposals* for establishing a Society upon principles therein mentioned, 
whose members shall be the officers of the American Army, having been 
communicated to the several regiments of the respective lines, they appointed 
an officer from each, who, in conjunction with the General Officers, should 
take the same into consideration at their meeting this day, at which the 
Honorable Major-General Baron de Steuben, the senior officer present, was 
pleased to preside. 

The proposals being read, fully considered, paragraph by paragraph, and 
the amendments agreed to, Major-General Knox, Brigadier-General Hand, 
Brigadier-General Huntington, and Captain Shaw were chosen to revise the 
same, and prepare a copy to be laid before this Assembly at their next meeting, 
to be holden at Major-General Baron de Steuben's quarters, on Tuesday, the 
13th inst. 

Tuesday, 13M May, 1783. 

The representatives of the American Army being assembled, agreeably to 
•adjournment, the plan for establishing a Society, whereof the officers of the 
American Army are to be members, is accepted, and is as follows, viz. : 



(Gen. Knox's proposal.) 

Whereas, it has pleased the Supreme Gover- 
nor of the Universe, in the disposition of 
human affairs, to cause the separation of the 
colonies of North America from the domination 
of Great Britain, and after a bloody conflict of 
eight years, to establish them free, independent, 
and sovereign States, connected, by alliances 
founded upon reciprocal advantages, with some 
of the greatest princes and powers of the earth. 



(Institution as adopted.} 

" It having pleased the Supreme Governor of 
the Universe, in the disposition of human 
affairs, to cause the separation of the Colonies 
of North America from the domination of 
Great Britain, and after a bloody conflict of 
eight years, to establish them free, independent, 
and sovereign States, connected, by alliances 
founded on reciprocal advantages, with some 
of the greatest princes and powers of the earth. 



• rhese " proposals" are understood to have been embodied in a paper (still in existence) in the handwrit- 
ing oi General Knox, dated "Westpoint, i; April, 17M," proposing .1 plan ..I organization ,,1 .1 s,« iety to be 
formed of Officers of the American Army, to be known as the "Cincinnati." This plan is herewith print,-, I 
in parallel columns with the " Institution" as adopted. 



V 



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HE S0< IETi 01 I III" ilNi INN \ II. 



T.< perpetuate, . well the remem- 

brance .'i this great event, as the mutual friend- 
ships which have been formed andei the pressure 
of common danger, and in numerous instances 
cemented bj the blood of the panics, the 
of tho American Army do hereby in the 
most solemn manner associate, constitute and 
combine then loneSoci - Friends, 

to endure while they shall endure, or am ol 
oldest male po who may be judged 

i of becoming its supporters and members. 



•■ To pi rpi ite, thi refore, as well the re- 
membrance of this vast event, as the mutual 
friendships which have been formed under the 
non danger, and in many in- 
stances cemented by the blood of the parties, 
the officers of the American Army do, I 
in the most solemn manner, asSCciati 

id combine themselves into one 
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, to endure as long as they 
shall endure. I their eldest male pos- 

terity, and in failure thereof, the collateral 
« may be judged worth of be- 
coming its supporters and memb 



The officers of the American Army, having 
generally been taken from the citizens of Amer- 
ifess high veneration lor the character 
of that illustrious Roman Quintius Cincinnatus; 
and being resolved to follow his examp 
returning to their citizenship again. the) think 
they may, with •. denominate them- 

. of " The Cincinnati." 

The objects ol this Association shall be an 
incessant attention to preserve inviolate those 
exalted rights and liberties of human nature, for 
which they have fought and bled, and without 
which the high : .: 
curse instead of a blessing. 



"The officers of the American Army having 
generally been taken from the citizens of Amer- 
ica, possess high veneration for the character of 
. man, LUCIUS Ql INIHs CIN- 
CINNATI'S; and being resolved to follow his 
example. b\ returning to their citizenship, the) 
think they may, with propriety, denominate 
themselves I'm So, 1ETY Ol S \n \ 1 1 

" I'hc following principles shall be immut- 
the Societj of the 
I matt : 

" An incessant attention to preserve inviolate 

.salted rights and liberties of human 

nature, for which they have fought and bled, 

and without which the high rank of a rational 

being is a curse insteai ssing. 



An unalterable determination to promoti 

all legal means that Union and harmony, be- 
ll) nec- 
to their happiness, and the future dignity 
of the American Empire. 



" An unalterable determination to promote 
and cherish, between the respective States, that 
union and national honor, so essentially neces- 
sary to their happiness, and the future dignity 
of the American empire. 



inent the cordial affection sub- 
sisting among rs, which shall dictate 
brotherly kindness in all things, and particularly 

xtend to the most substantial acts of bene- 
'icers. who unfortunately may 



"To uanent the cordial affection 

subsisting among the officers. This spirit will 
dictate brotherly kindness in all things, 
particularly extend to the most substantial acts 
of beneficence, according ibility of the 



* l: ed by the Commit 

a. and to the idea that it in . claiming 

descent of origin member. This cons stances 

when, as was not infrequi - ice, admit the descendants 

sisted the efforts for Independen 
The v, inches" is the Committ ' time in a connection th 

of s as have died in the service, their 

■ ' 

The whole 1 • nfine the success - 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



'5 



be under the necessity of demanding it, accord- 
ing to the ability of the Society. These princi- 
ples shall be immutable, and shall form the 
basis of the Society of Cincinnati. 

The General Society will, for the sake of fre- 
quent communications, be divided into State 
Societies, and these again subdivided into Coun- 
ty Societies, or in such Districts as shall be di- 
rected by the State Society. 

The Society of the Counties, to meet once in 
every three months; those of the States once in 
every \ ear, and the General Society once every 
three years. 



At each meeting, the principles of the fnsti- 
tution, with the best measures to promote them, 
will be considered and adopted. 

But it will be necessary that the resp 
ies should have their particulai duties 
assigned, that the several parts may form one 
system. 

The County Societies shall havi a Via Presi- 
dent, Deputy Secretary, and Deputy Treasurer, 
to be chosen annually by themselves. 

The Deputy Secretary shall have a book in 
which shall be recorded the names of all the 
members of the General Society, the members 
who compose the State Society, and the par- 
ticular members and officers of the County So- 
ciety, and another book in which shall be- 
regularly stated the proceedings of the Co 
Society, with all the official letters written and 
d. He shall also transmit to the Secre- 
tary of the State Society the names of the offi- 
cers of the County Society for the curren' 

The Deputy Treasurer shall have a bo 
which shall be recorded an exact state of his 
proceedings, and of the moneys which he may 
from time to time receive of the respective 
members, and the appropriations of the same. 
At each quarterly meeting he shall receive such 
sums as the members may subscribe for the re- 
lief of the indigent members of the State So- 
ciety, and he shall transmit the same annually 
to the 'Treasurer of the State Society, togethet 
with the names of the subscribers. 

It will be a rule that no money will bi 

but at the quarterly meetings, and that 
it shall be perfectly optional to subscribe , 01 
not, and such sums as each member shall think 
proper. 



■ ards those officers and their fami 
ho unfortunately may be under the neces- 
sity of receiving it. 

" The General Society will, for the sake of 
frequent communications, be divided into state 
Sen ietii . and the e again into such districts as 

shall be directed by the stair Society. 

"Tin Societies of the districts to meet as 
is shall be agreed upon by the State So- 
ciety; those of the State on the fourth day of 
July annually, or oftener, if they shall find it 
expedient; and the General Society on the first 
\1 ! iv in May annually, so long as they shall 
deem it necessary, and afterwards, at least once 
in every three years. 

" At each meeting, the prim iples of tie- In- 
stitution will be fully considered, ami thi 
mi .hi' i" promote them adopted. 



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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



The State Societies will consist of all the 
officers residing in each State, respectively, or 
such of them as may think proper to attend. 
The officers of the County Society must attend 
t'x officio. 



"The State Societies will consist of all the 
members resident in each State repectivelv; and 
any member removing from one State to an- 
other, is to be considered, in all respects, as 
belonging to the Society of the State in which 
he shall actually reside. 



The Slate Societies shall have a President, 

tary, and Treasurer, to be chosen annually 

by a majority of the votes at the State meeting. 



" The State Societies to have a President, 
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and 
Assistant Treasurer, to be chosen annually by 
a majority of votes, at the State meeting. 



The State meeting shall write annually a cir- 
cular letter to the other State Societies, noting 
whatever they may think worthy of observation, 
respecting the good of the Society, or the gene- 
ral gc ivernment of the United States, and giving 
information of the officers chosen for the current 
year, and a copy of this letter shall be punct- 
uallv transmitted to the Secretary-General of the 
Society, who shall record it in a book to be 
kept for that pur] 



"Each State meeting shall write annually, 
or oftener, if necessary, a circular letter, to the 
other State Societies, noting whatever they may 
think worthy of observation, respecting the 
good of the Society, or the general union of 
the States, and giving information of the offi- 
cers chosen for the current year. Copies of 
these letters shall be regularly transmitted to 
the Secretary-General of the Society, who will 
record them in a book to be assigned for that 
purpose. 



The State Society will have the right to regu- 
late every thing respecting itself, consistent 
with the general maxims of the Cincinnati. To 
judge ot the qualifications of the members who 
may be proposed; to expel any member, who, 
bv a conduct inconsistent with a gentleman and 
man of honor, or by an opposition to the infer- 
tile community in general, or Society in 
particular, may render himself unworthy to con- 
tinue a member. 



" The State Society will regulate everything 
respecting itself and the Societies of the Dis- 
tricts, consistent with the general maxims of 
the Cincinnati; judge of the qualifications of 
the members who may be proposed ; and expel 
any member, who, by conduct inconsistent 
with a gentleman and a man of honor, or by 
an opposition to the interests of the commu- 
nity in general or the Society in particular, 
may render himself unworthy to continue a 
member. 



The moneys which may be furnished by the 
County Societies, shall be appropriated b) the 
State Society, by a majority of votes to the un- 
fortunate members, or their widows, or orphans. 
The whole sum raised shall be distributed annu- 
allv for the first ten years of the Institution, 
provided that proper objects claim the relief of 
the Society, but after that period the interest 
onlv shall be expended, and the principal shall 
be formed into a perpetual fund for the bene- 
volent purposes before recited. 



"In order to form funds which may be 
respectable, and assist the unfortunate, each 
officer shall deliver to the Treasurer of the 
State Society, one month's pay, which shall 
remain tor ever to the use of the State Society; 
the interest only of which, if necessary, to be 
appropriated to the relief of the unfortunate. 

" Donations may be made by persons not of 
the Society, and by members of the Society, 
for the express purpose of forming permanent 
funds for the use of the State Society; and the 
interest of these donations appropriated in the 
same manner as that of the months' pay. 

" Moneys, at the pleasure of each member, 
may be subscribed in the Societies of ; 
tricts, or the State Societies, for the relief of 
the unfortunate members, or their widows and 
orphans, to be appropriated by the Stat - 
ciet\ only. 



Ill 1 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINN \ I I. 



17 



The General Meeting of the Society shall 
consist of all the members, who may find it con- 
venient to attend; but the officers, that is to 
say, the President, Secretary, and Treasurer of 
the State Societies, shall consider themselves 
under indispensable obligations to attend. 

In the General Meeting, the President-Gene- 
ral, and the Secretary-General, shall be chosen 
to serve until the next triennial meeting. 

The circular letters which have been written 
annually by the respective State Societies to 
each other, shall be read and considered, and 
all such measures concerted as may conduce to 
advance the general intendments of the Society. 



All the officers of the American Army, as well 
those who have resigned with honor, or who 
have been dismissed by the regulations of Con- 
gress, upon the respective reforms of the army, 
as those who shall continue to the end of the 
war are free to become parties to this In- 
stitution, provided that they sign their names 
to the general rules in each State Society with- 
in two years after the army shall be disbanded, 
specifying opposite their names, their time of 
service, and the resolution of Congress, by 
which any may have been deranged, and the 
place of residence of each member. 



" The meeting of the General Society shall 
consist of its officers, and a representation 
from each State Society, in number not exceed- 
ing five, whose expenses shall be borne by 
their respective State Societies. 

"In the General Meeting, the President, 
Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, 
Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer-General, 
shall be chosen to serve until the next meeting. 

" The circular letters which have been writ- 
ten by the respective State Societies to each 
other, and their particular laws, shall be read 
and considered, and all measures concerted 
which may conduce to the general intendment 
of the Society. 

" It is probable that some persons may make 
donation; to the General Society, for the pur- 
pose of establishing funds for the further com- 
fort of t'.i. unfortunate; in which case such 
donations must be placed in the hands of the 
Treasurer-General, the interest only of which 
to be disposed of, if necessary, by the General 
Meeting. 

" All the officers of the American Army, as 
well those who have resigned with honor, after 
three years' service in the capacity of officers, 
or who have been deranged by the resolutions 
of Congress, upon the several reforms of the 
army, as those who shall have continued to the 
end of the war, have the right to become par- 
ties to this Institution; provided that they sub- 
scribe one month's pay, and sign their names 
to the general rules, in their respective State 
Societies — those who are present with the 
army, immediately, and others within six 
months after the army shall be disbanded, 
extraordinary cases excepted. The rank, time 
of service, resolutions of Congress by which 
any have been deranged, and place of residence, 
must be added to each name; and as a testi- 
mony of affection to the memory and the off- 
spring of such officers as have died in the ser- 
vice, their eldest male branches shall have the 
same right of becoming members, as the child- 
ren of the actual members of the Society. 

" Those officers who an- foreigners, not 
resident in any of the States, will have their 
names enrolled by the Secretary-General, and 
are to be considered as members in the Socie- 
ties of any ol the States in which they may 

happen to be. 

" And as there are. and will at all timi 
men in the respective Males, eminent for their 
abilities and patriotism, whose views may lie 



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THE SOI ll'll OF Mil- CINCINN \ 1 I 



directed to the same laudable objects with those 
of the Cincinnati, it shall be a rule to admit 
such characters as Honorary Members of the 
Society, for their own lives only: Provided 
always, that the number of Honorary Mem- 
bers, in each State, does not exceed a ratio of 
one to four of the officers or their descendants. 



Each State Society shall obtain a list of its 
members, and, at the first annual meeting, the 
Stat. Secretary shall have three copies of the 
Institution of the Society, engrossed upon 
parchment, when every member present, shall 
sign; and the Secretary shall endeav..r to pro- 
cure the signatures of every absent member. 
One of these to be transmitted to the Secre- 
tary-! leneral, to be kept among the archives ol 
the Society, one to remain in the hands ol the 
State Secretary, and one to go to the County 
Secretaries. From these State lists the Secre- 
tary-General must m.ik. out, at the first gene- 
ral meeting, a complete list of the whole S :ty, 

a copy of which he will furnish each Secretary 
of the State Societies, who will transmit them 
to the County Societies. 

The Society shall have an Order, by which 
it shall be known an. 1 distinguished, which shall 
be a medal of gold or silver, of a proper size 
to receive these emblems, the principal figure 

CINCINNATI'S; 
Three Senators presenting him with a sword 
and other military ensigns — on a field in 
the back-ground, his wife standing at 
the door of their Cottage — near it 
A YOKED PLOUGH AND INSTRUMENTS OF HUS- 
BANDRY. 
Round the whole, 
OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REM- 
PUBLICAM. 
On the reverse, 
Sun rising — a city with open gates, and vessels 
entering the port — Fame crowninig ClN 
CINNATUS with a wreath, inscribed 

VIRTl lis PREMIUM. 

Beneath, 
HANDS JOINED, SUPPORTING A HEART, 

With the motto, 

ESTO PERPETUA. 

Round the whole the name of the Society and 

year of its institution. 



" Each Stat. Society shall obtain a list ..I its 
members, and. at the first annual meeting, the 
State Secretary shall have engrossed, on parch- 
ment, two copies of the Institution of the So- 
ciety, which every member present, shall sign; 
and the Secretary shall endeavor to procure the 
signature of every absent member; one of those 
Iis-i - to be transmitted to the Secretary-General, 
to be kept in the archives of the Society, and 
the other to remain in the hands of the State 
Secretary. From the State-lists, the Secretary- 
General must make out, at the first general 
meeting, a complete list of the whole Society, 
with a copy of which he will furnish each State 
Secretary. 



" The Society shall have an Order, by which 
its members shall be kn.wn ami distinguished, 
which shall be a medal ..f gold, of a proper 
size to receive the emblems, and suspended by 
a deep blue ribbon, two inches wide, edged 
with white, descriptive of the union of America 
and France, viz; 

" The principal figure 

CINCINNATUS 

Three Senators presenting him with a sword 

and other military ensigns — on a field in 

the back-ground, his wife standing at 

the door of their Cottage — near it 

A PLOUGH AMI IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. 

Round the whole, 

OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE KF.M- 

PUBLICAM. 

On the reverse, 

Sun rising — a city with open gates, and vessels 

entering the port — Fame crowning ClN- 

. INNATUS with a wreath, inscribed 

VIRTU 1 Is 1 K EMU U. 

Below, 

HAM'S JOINED, SUPPORTING A HE i 

With the in 

; - 1 l'E R PET I A. 

Round the whole, 

SOCIETAL CINCINNATORUM INSTI- 

TUTA, 

A.D. I7S.5.' 







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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



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The foreign officers who have served in the 
Army of the United States, and who have been 
honorably dismissed therefrom, shall be entitled 
to all the honors, rights and privileges of the 
Society. And the Secretary-( ieneral must obtain 
a list of them with ranks in the American army. 
The places of which they came, together with 
their civil and military rank in their own 
country. 

And it shall be a perpetual rule of the So- 
ciety that the officers of the gallant corps of 
French troops, who so gloriously served in 
America under the orders of his Excellency 
Count Rochambeau, shall be entitled to all the 
civilities and friendships of the Society, and to 
render this as effectual as possible, the President- 
General will write to General Rochambeau, 
requesting of him an accurate list of the officers 
of his army, with their civil and military titles, 
and places of residence, and as soon as may be 
the President-General shall transmit to Count 
de Rochambeau a gold medal, containing the 
order of the Society. 



The Society, deeply impressed with a sense 
of the generous assistance this country has 
received from France, and desirous of per- 
petuating the friendships which have been 
formed, and so happily subsisted, between the 
officers of the allied forces, in the prosecution 
of the war, direct, that the President-General 
transmit, as soon as may be, to each of the 
characters hereafter named, a medal containing 
the Order of the Society, viz: 
His Excellency the Chevalier in: la Li - 

ZERNE, Minister Plenipotentiary, 
His Excellency the Sieer Gerard, late .Mi- 
nister Plenipotenii.ii v, 
Their Excellencies 
The Count D'Estaing, 

The Ci il N l DE < lR ISS] . 

The Count de Barras, 

The Chevalier de Touchi >, 

Admirals and Commanders in the Navy. 
His Excellency the COUNT Dl Roi HAMBEAU, 

Commander-in-Chief, 

And the Generals and Colonels of his army, 
and acquaint them, that the Society do them 
selves the honor to consider them as members. 



Resoh • ./', Thai a copy of the aforegoing institution be given to the senior officer of each State 
line, and that the officers of th respective State lines, sign their names to the same, in manner 
and form following, viz: 

" We, the subscriber-, officers of the American Army, do hereby voluntarily become parties 
to the foregoing institution, and do bind ourselves to observe, and be governed by the principles 
therein contained. For the performance whereof we do solemnly pledge to each other our sacred 
honor. 

Done i\ the Cantonment, on 1Iii^<> n 's River, 
In the year 178 J. 



THE SOCIETY OF TH1' ( [N( IW 

That the members of the Society, at the time of subscribing their names to 
the Institution, do also sign a draft on the Paymaster-General, in the following 
- (the regiments to do it regimentally, and the Generals and other officers 
not belonging to regiments, each for himself, individually), viz. : 

" To John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster-General to the Army of the United States. 

Sir : Please pay to Treasurer for the St ite Association 

of The Cincinnati, or his order, one month's pay of our several grades respec- 
tively, and deduct the same from the balance which shall be found due to us on 
the final liquidation of our accounts ; for which this shall be your warrant." 

That the members of the several State Societies assemble as soon as may be, 

for the choice of their President anil other officers ; and that the Presidents 

correspond together, and appoint a meeting of the officers who may be chosen 

for each State, in order to pursue such further measures as may be judged 

— ary. 

That the General Officers, and the officers delegated to represent the several 
corpsof the army, subscribe to the Institution of the General Society, for them- 
selves and their constituents, in the manner and form before prescribed. 

That Generai 1 1 i- \ rn. 

t'ii neral Baron ok Si eubi n, and 

Generai Knox, 
be a committee to wait on his Exi ellency the Commander-in-Chief, with a copy 
of the Institution, and request him to honor the Society by placing his name at 
the head of it. 

That Major-Gi neral Heath,* second in command in this arm-, be, and he 
hereby is desired to transmit copies of the Institution, with the proceedings 
thereon, to the commanding officer of the Southern army, the senior officer in 
each State, from Pennsylvania to Georgia, inclusive, and to the commanding 

; of the Rhode Island line, requesting them to communicate the same to 
the i fficers under their several commands, and to take such measures as may- 
appear to them necessary for expediting the establishment of their State Socie- 

md sending a delegation to represent them in the first general meeting to 
be holden on the first Monday in May, 1784. The meeting then adjourned 
without day. 

STEUBEN, Major-General, President. 

* It is a curious coincidence that the officer thus selected affords the only known instance of a renunciat: 
the Order of the Cincinnati by one of its members.— (See Gen. Heath's Letter, Append 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 21 

Cantonment of the American Army, igt/i June, 1783. 

At a meeting of the General Officers, and the gentlemen delegated by the 
respective regiments, as a Convention for establishing the Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, held by the request of the President, at which were present, 

Major-General Baron de Steuben, President, 

Major-General Howe, 

Major-General K.NOX, 

Brigadier-General Patterson, 

Brigadier-General Hand, 

Brigadier-General Huntington, 

Brigadier General Putnam, 

Colonel Webb, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Hun riNG roN, 

Major Pettengill, 

Lieutenant Whiting, 

Colonel H. Jackson, 

Captain Shaw, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Hull, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwei i , 

Colonel Courtlandt. 
General Baron de Steuben acquainted the Convention that he had, agree- 
ably to their request, at the last meeting, transmitted to his Excellency the 
Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of France, a 
copy of the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, with their vote respect- 
ing his Excellency, and the other characters therein mentioned ; and that his 
Excellency had returned an answer, declaring his acceptance of the same, and 
expressing the grateful sense he entertains of the honor conferred on himself, 
and the other gentlemen of the French nation, by this act of the Convention. 

Resolved, That the letter of the Chevalier de la Luzerne be recorded in the 
proceedings of this day, and deposited in the archives of the Society, as a testi- 
mony of the high sense this Convention entertains of the honor done to the 
Society by his becoming a member thereof. 

The Letter is as follows : 

Philadelphie, It 3 /««'», 1783. 
" Monsieur le B.\: 

" J'ai recu avec beaucoup de reconnoissanci le statuts de l'ordre respectable que messieurs 
les officiers de l'armee Americaine viennent de fonder : si le courage, la patience, et toutes les 
vertus que cette brave armee a si souvent dcployees dans le cours de cette guerre, pouvoient jamais 
itre oublices, ce monument seul les rapelleroit. 

" J'ose vous assurer, monsieur, que tous les ofticiers de ma nation, que vous avez bien voulu 
admettre dans votre societe, en seront infiniment honorcs ; je vous prie d'etre bien persuade que 
je sens, en mon particulier, bien vivement l'honneur que m'ont fait messieurs les officiers de 
l'armee, en daignant penser a rnoi dans celt* occasion. Jecompte aller rendre mes devoirs ,i sun 
excellence le General Washington, aussoit que le trait- definitif sera signc, et j'aurai l'honneur 
de lui assurer de vive voix de ma respeetueuse reconnoissance. 

" Je saisis avec un grand empressement cette occasion de vous renouveller les sentiments du 
tres parfait et tres respectueux attachment avec lesquels j'ai l'honneur d'etre. Monsieur le Baron, 

rotre tres humble, et 

tres obeissant serviteur, 
LE CHEVALIER DE LA LUZERNE. 
Monsieur, Monsieur 1( B , Major-General) 

au service des Ltats Unis, au (juarlicr General." )" 



IH1 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

The Baron having also communicated a letter from Major L'Enfant, 
enclosing a design for the medal and order, containing the emblems of the 
Institution. 

Resolved, I lut the bald eagle, carrying the emblems on its breast, be estab- 
lished as the order of the Society, and that the ideas of Major 1 Infant 
respecting it. and the manner of its being worn by the members, be adopted. 

That the order be of the same size, and in every other respect conformable to 
the said design, which for that purpose is certified by the Karon de Steuben, 

President of this Convention, and to be deposited in the archives of the Society 
as the original, from which all copies are to be made. Also, that silver medals, 
ding the si/e of a Spanish milled dollar, with the emblems as designed 
by Major L'Enfan r. and certified by the President be given to each and every 
member of the Society, together with a diploma, on parchment, whereon shall 
be impressed the exact figures of the order and medal, as above mentioned ; any- 
thing in the original institution, respecting gold medals, to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 

Major 1 'Eni \n r's letter is as follows : 

" PHII iDEI PHIE, le l" linn. I 

Cl MRU. 

" Aussitot apres la reception de votre lettre en datedu 20 Mai. laquelle ne m'est parvenu que 
Ic 7, ayant ete par ha -aid a la poste, je me suis occupc des projets de la medaille. Je vous envoye 
les desseins de deux faces, que i'.ii faits, en grand, a tin qu'on puisse mieux juger de l'ensemble. 
Lors di n on la reduira a la grandeur convenable qui pour peur que l'on exige de preci- 

sion dans le dessein. ne doit pas etre plus petite qu'un dollar, le sujet se trouvant trop complique 
pour que les details puissent etre appercus sous une plus petite dimension. 

"Je ne 1'ai point (ait ovale, ainsi que \ous me le demandez, vii quecette formeest peu propre 
a une medaille : d'ailleurs, on pourra toujours la faire au moment de 1'execution, si on persiste 
absolument a iter l'ordre - forme, a laquelle je erois que tout autre seroit prefe- 

rable ; ainsi que je erois et espere que vous en sere.- bien persuade, et fere, en sorte d'< 
vaincre ines qui composent le comite rclatif a cette institution, auxquell prie de 

communiquer les observ.uions suivantes. 

" la medaille, ronde ou ovale, n'est considered dans les different* etats de 1' Europe que 
comme une 1 d'artiste, d'artisant, on comme tin signe de eommunaute de fabriquants, 

ou societe religieuse— en outre, I'usage abusif que Ton en fait, particulierement en Allen; 

en halie. d'ou il arrive en Franc Has, des musiciens, decores de cette maniere, rend 

stinguer cet ordre par une forme qui lui soit partieuliere. et puisse, en honorant 
celui qui en sera de se [aire respecter par son simple aspei 

ceux mcmc qui en seront apportes d'en de'tailler les dirterentes empreintes. 

" Ce n'est pas que je croye qu'une forme, ou une autre changera ('opinion d'un peuple repu- 
blicain accoutume a Denser, mais je dis, que dans une institution pareille, le premier but doit etre 
de se rendre respectable vuples du monde ; et que ce n'est qu'en parlant aux 

attire l'attention du vulgaire, qu'il ya di~ - d'habitude qui ne peuvent are detruits — qu'un 

homme qualitie et dejadecort en Europe ne portera pas une medaille, on, si flattc de recevoir une 
marque de distinction d'une societe respectable, il la portoit, ce seroit d'une maniere pen pr 
faire accrediter la valeur de l'ordre. iju'au contraire, en lui donnant une forme nouvelle en parti- 
eulier. . aleur reelle, celle de la rendre reccommendable, en engageant cet 

en seront decores a en faire parade de pair avec les autres ordres militair. - 
moyen de la mettre d'abord de niveau avec eux. 

" be bald eagle qui est partieulier a ee continent et qui se distingue a celui des autres elimats. 
sa tete et sa queue blanches, m'a para me'riter de l'attention. 



I III-; SOCIETY ul I 111 CINCINNA I I. 2 3 

" Je vous envoye deux cssais que j'ai faits ; je desire que l'un des deux puisse etre adopti au 
lii M . 1 place de la medaille. Dans l'un, je faisl'aigle supportant une e'toile, a treize pointes, dans 
le centre de laquelle est renfermee la figure de la medaille avec les inscriptions, taut sur la face que 
sur le reverse. On pourroit ajouter une legende dans les serres et autour du col de l'aigle, avec 
une inscription particuliere, oil bien y transferer celledu contour de la medaille. Dans l'autre, j'ai 
fait l'aigle simplement portant sur sa poitrine la figure de la medaille, avec une legende dans ses 
serres et autour du col, laquelle lui repasse par derriere le dos pour soutenir le revers. Je prefere- 
rois le dernier, en ce qu'il n'a rapport a aucun ordre et porte avec lui un caractere distinctif , et ne 
seroit pas fort dispendieux a faire executer. Le premier menee, quoique plus compliquc, ne 
reviendroit pas aussi cher qu'on pourroit le penser, toutc fois qu'on en chargeroit des personnes 
capables de l'executer : ce qui ne peut avoir lieu non plus que rclativement a la medaille qu'en 
I'envoyant en Europe, ce qui n'exigeroit pas beaucoup de terns, et ne seroit pas si dispendieux, que 
d'en amlier 1'execution a des personnes incapables. 

" Une medaille est un monument qui passe a la posterite ; et par consequent il est necessaire 
qu'elle soit portee au degre de perfection possible dansle siecle oil elle est frappee. Or, bien frap- 
per une medaille est une chose qui demande de l'habitude et un bon coin, or il n'y a ici ni 
balancier propre a cette besogne ni gens capables de faire un bon coin, je me chargerois volontiers 
de recommender l'execution de lamedaille.de l'aigle ou ordre, a gens capables de l'exe ; cuter 
a l'aris. 

" Bien loin que je propose de changer la medaille ovale en un aigle sur lequel seroit empreint 
cette medaille, je ne pretends pas dire qu'ils ne scavent pas frapper des medailles. Au contraire, 
void quelle est mon idee a ce sujet. 

"On pourroit faire frapper ici des medailles d'argent aux frais communs de la societe, et en 
distribuer une a chacun de ses membres, comme un titre adapte a la patente de parchemin, sur 
laquelle il sera aussi a propos de graver la figure de la medaille, la forme de l'aigle ou de 1'etoile, 
avec sa plus grande dimension, detaillant les couleurs, en soignant de s'y conformer, laiss.mt la 
lil" ii' aux chevaliers qui s'en pourvoyeront a leurs depens, de la faire de tel metal, et aussi petite 
que possible, sans alteration d'aucun des emblemes. II ne me parroit pas non plus a propos que 
les chevaliers honoraires portassent l'ordre pareille aux chevaliers de droit. II faudroit qu'on 
signifiat qu'ils portassent la medaille, ou 1'etoile, ou l'aigle en sautoir, et les chevaliers a la 3111c 
bouttoniere. 

" Mon General, ce sent lis remarques que je vous prie de faire traduire, et de les soumettre 
a I'opinion general. Je vous semis oblige de me faire savoir quelle issue cette lettre aura, et quelle 
sera la decision qu'on en donnera. 

J'ai, &c, &C, a I. 'Km am, 

" N. B. I. a tele el la queue de l'aigle seroient d'argent oil emaillces en blanc, le corps et les 
nli- d'or, la medaille sur sa poitrine et sur son dos, ...like en couleur de mime que la legende. 
(in pourroit y ajouter des branches de laurier et de chine dans les ailes, pour lors qu'on emailleroit 
en verd ; 1'etoile du medallion seroit pointee en or, ou emaillee bleu et blanc, ceux qui voudroient 
faire le depense pourruient avoir en diamant tout ce qui est blanc. Le ruban seroit moire comme 
celui de tons les autres ordres." 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention he transmitted, by the President, 
in Major L'Eni \\ i, fur his care and ingenuity in preparing the afore-mentioned 
designs, and that lie he acquainted that they cheerfully embrace his offer of 
assistance, and request a continuance of his attention in carrying the designs into 
execution, for which purpose the President is desired to correspond with him. 

Resolved, That his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief be requested to offi- 
ciate as President-General, until the first general meeting, to be held in 
May next. 

That a Treasurer General, and a Secretary-General be ballotted for, to offi- 
ciate in like mannei 



: \ I HI' mh II IV 01 I III CINCINNATI 

The ballots being taken, Major-General M'Doug \i i was elected Treasurer- 
General, and Major-General Knox Secretary-General, who are hereby requested 

to accept said appointments. 

Resolved, That all the proceedings of this Convention, including the Institu- 
tion of the Society, be recorded from the original papers in his possession by 
Captain Shaw, who at the first meeting was requested to act as Secretary, and 
that the same, signed by the President's Secretary, together with the original 
papers, be given into the hands of Major-General Knox, Secretary-General to 
the Society; and that Captain North, aid-de-camp to the Baron de Steuben, 
and acting Secretary to him as President, sign the said records. 

The dissolution of a very considerable part of the army, since the last meeting 
of this Convention, having rendered the attendance of some of its members 
impracticable, and the necessity for some temporary arrangements, previous to 
the first meeting of the General Society, being so strikingly obvious, the Conven- 
tion found itself constrained to make those before mentioned, which they have 
done with the utmost diffidence of themselves, and relying entirely on the 
candor of their Constituents to make allowance for the measure. The principal 
objects of its appointment being thus accomplished, the members of this Con- 
vention think lit to dissolve the same, and it is hereby dissolved accordingly. 

True copy from the records of the Society. 

W. North, Secretary to the President. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINI INNATI. 27 



GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY HAVE BEEN HELD AS 

FOLLOWS: 

1784. May, at Philadelphia. — All of the 13 State Societies represented. 

1787. May, Philadelphia.— Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Con- 
necticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Caro- 
lina and South Carolina (10 State Societies) represented. 

1788.* May, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania and Delaware 5 State Societies) represented — one delegate 
from New York in attendance — the appointment stating that two were 
to constitute a representation. 

1790. May, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- 
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina and Georgia (8 State 
Societies) represented. 

1 791.* May, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia (9 
State Societies) represented. 

1793. May, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsyl- 
vania, New Jersey. Maryland and South Carolina (7 State Societies) 
represented. 

1796. May, Philadelphia. — Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, South Carolina (5 State Societies) represented. 

1799. May, Philadelphia. — New Jersey and Pennsylvania {2 State Societies) 
represented. 

1800.* May, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and South Carolina (8 
State Societies) represented. 

1802. May, Washington. — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland (6 State Societies) represented. 

1805. May, Philadelphia. — Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, South Carolina (5 State Societies) represented. 

1808. (Minutes missing. 1 

1811. July, Philadelphia.— New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina (3 
State Societies) represented. This meeting adjourned to August, 
181 1, when the same three State Societies were represented. 

1812.* September, Philadelphia.— New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South 
Carolina (4 State Societies' represented. Adjourned to September 
29, when only three State Societies were represented.! 

1825. November, Philadelphia. — Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Penn- 
sylvania and South Carolina (5 State Societies) represented. 

* Extra, or adjourned meetings. 

t No official minutes of the meeting in 1S12 have been found, but letters and memoranda in 
some of the State Society archives give the information here stated. There are no minutes and 
no known information as to any meeting from 1812 to 1825. 



28 rHE SOCIETY Ol rHE CINCINNATI 

[829 November, Philadelphia. — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Penn 
sylvania and South Carolina (5 State Societies) represented. 

1832. May. Philadelphia.- New Jersej and Pennsylvania (2 State Societies) 
represented. 

1835, May, Philadelphia. — Pennsylvania (1 State Society represented. 

[83S, May. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania 1 State Society) represented. 

1839.* November, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania (1 State Society) represented. 

iNij November, Philadelphia.— Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania (4 State Societies) represented. 

iS|S. November, Philadelphia. -Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania (4 State Societies) represented. 

1851. November, New York. — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania (4 State Societies) represented. 
May, Baltimore. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland, South Carolina (6 State Societies represented. 

1855.1 February, Charleston. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Penn 
sylvania, Maryland, South Carolina 6 State Societies) represented. 

1S50.+ May, I'renton.- Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland 
and South Carolina 5 State Societies) represented. 

1857. Max. Boston. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland (5 State Societies) represented 
May, Philadelphia. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania and Maryland (5 State Societies) represented. 

1S63. May, New York Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania (4 state Societies represented. 

1S66. May, I'renton. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania 
and Maryland 5 State Societies) represented. 

1869. May. Baltimore. -Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, 
Maryland. South Carolina (6 State Societies} represented. 

1872. May, Boston. — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, 
Maryland, South Carolina 6 State Societies) represented. 

1875, May, New York Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, 
Maryland, South Carolina (6 State Societies) represented. 

[S7S. May, Philadelphia. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl- 
vania and South Carolina (5 State Societies) represented. 

iSSi. April, Charleston, — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, Maryland, South Carolina and Rhode Island (7 State Societies 
represented. 



A special, called meeting. 
I v ourned met 



EXTRACTS 



THE PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS. 



IHI SOCIETY nF THK CINCINNATI. 



3' 



PROPOSED AMENDED INSTITUTION. 



1784, NLw. 



The first General Meeting of the Society was held in Philadelphia. On the second day of 
the Meeting it was resolved to take into consideration "the Institution of the Society." The 
subject was considered by Special Committees and in Committee of the Whole, and engaged the 
attention of the Meeting from day to day until May 13th, when 

The Report of the Committee of Five on the Amendment of the Institution 
was next taken up and debated, paragraph by paragraph. Several alterations 
and amendments being made therein, the following was agreed to as the Insti- 
tution by which the Society shall in future be governed, viz.: 

The Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati as Altered and 
Amended at their first General Meeting. 

" It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe to give success 
to the arms of our country, and to establish the UJnited States free and inde- 
pendent : Therefore, gratefully to commemorate this event ; to inculcate to the 
latest ages the duty of laying down in peace, arms assumed for public defence, 
by forming an Institution which recognizes that most important principle ; to 
continue the mutual friendships which commenced under the pressure of com- 
mon danger; and to effectuate the acts of beneficence, dictated by the spirit of 
brotherly kindness towards those officers and their families, who unfortunately 
may be under the necessity of receiving them ; the officers of the American 
Army do hereby constitute themselves into a Society of Friends : and pos- 
sessing the highest veneration for the character of that illustrious Roman, 
Lucius Quintius Cinctnnatus, denominate themselves the SOCIETY OF 
THE CINCINNATI. 

Sec. 1. The persons who constitute this Society are all the commissioned 
and brevet officers of the Army and Navy of the United States, who have served 
three years, and who left the service with reputation ; all officers who were in 
actual service at the conclusion of the war ; all the principal Staff Officers of 
the Continental Army ; and the officers who have been deranged by the several 
resolutions of Congress, upon the different reforms of the army. 

Skc. 2. There are also admitted into this Society, the late and present Min- 
isters of his Must Christian Majesty to the United States; all the Generals and 
Colonels of regiments and legions of the land forces; all the Admirals and 
Captains of the Navy, ranking as Colonels, who have co-operated with the 
armies of the United States, in their exertions for liberty; and such other per- 
sons as have been admitted by the respective State meetings. 

Sec. 3. The Society shall have a President. Vice-President, Secretary, and 
Assistant Secretary. 



32 THE SOCIETY OF 1'HF CINCINNATI. 

Sec . 4. There shall be a meeting of the Society, at least once in three years, 
on the first Momlay in May, at such place as the President shall appoint. 

The said meeting shall consist of the aforesaid officers (whose expenses shall 
be equally borne by the State funds) and a representation from each State. 

The business of this genera] meeting shall be, to regulate the distribution of 
surplus funds ; to appoint officers for the ensuing term; and to conform the 
by-laws of the State meetings to the general objects of the Institution. 

Sec. 5. I lu Society shall be divided into State meetings; each meeting 
shall have a President, Vice-President. Secretary, and Treasurer, respectively ; 
to be chosen by a majority of votes annually. 

Sec 6. The State meetings shall be on the Anniversary of Independence. 
They shall concert such measures as may conduce to the benevolent purposes 
of the Society : and the several State meetings shall, at suitable periods, make 
applications to their respective legislatures for grants of charters. 

Sec. 7. Any member removing from one State to another is to be consid- 
ered, in all respects, as belonging to the meeting of the State in which he shall 
actually reside. 

Sec. S. The State meeting shall judge of the qualification of its members, 

admonish, and if necessary expel any one who may conduct himself 
unworthily. 

3 . 9. The Secretary of each State meeting .shall register the names of 
the members resident in each State, and transmit a copy thereof to the Secre- 
tary of the Society. 

Sec. 10. In order to form funds for the relief of unfortunate members, their 
their widows and orphans, each officer shall deliver to the Treasurer of the 
State meeting one-month's pay. 

Sec. 11. No donations shall be received, but from citizens of the United 

States. 

Sic. [2. The funds of each State meeting shall be loaned to the State by 
permission of the legislature, and the interest only, annually to be applied for 
the purposes of the Society ; and if, in process of time, difficulties should occur 
in executing the intentions of the Society, the legislatures of the several States 
shall be requested to make such equitable dispositions as may be most cor- 
respondent with the original design of the Institution. 

Sic. 13. The subjects of his Most Christian Majesty, members of this 
Society, may hold meetings at their pleasure, and form regulations for their 
police, conformably to the objects of the Institution, and to the spirit of their 
government. 

Sec 14. The Society shall have an order ; which shall be a bald eagle 
gold, bearing on its breast the emblems hereafter described, suspended 1>\ a 
deep blue ribbon edged with white, descriptive of the union of America and 
France. 

" The principal figure, Cincinnatus ; three Senators presenting him with a 
sword and other military ensigns. On a field, in the background, his wife 



Till -in II IV (IK THE ( IXl IWA I I, 33 

standing at the door of their cottage: near it a plough and other implements of 
husbandry. Round the whole, omnia reliquit tervare rempublicam. On the 
reverse, sun rising ; a city with open gates, and vessels entering the port ; Fame 
crowning Cincinnatus with a wreath, inscribed virtutis prcemium. Below, hands 
joined, supporting a heart, with the motto, esto perpetua. Round the whole, 
Societas Cincinnatorum Tnstituta, A.D. 17S3." 

Sf.c. 15. A silver medal, representing the emblems, to be given to each 
member of the Society; together with a diploma on parchment, whereon shall 

be impressed the figures of the order and medal, as above mentioned. 

This proposed Institution was ordered to be forwarded to each State meeting, and to the 
meeting in France, accompanied by a Circular Letter, which said that they 

" had thought proper to recommend that the enclosed ' Institution of the Society 
" of the Cincinnati, as altered and amended at their first meeting,' should be 
" adopted by your State Society." 

Then, referring to a popular misapprehension of the objects of the Society, the letter pro- 
ceeds : 

" Therefore, to remove every cause of inquietude ; to annihilate every source 
of jealousy ; to designate explicitly the ground on which we wish to stand, and 
give one more proof that the officers of the American Army have a claim to be 
reckoned among the most faithful citizens, we have agreed that the following 
material alterations and amendments should take place : 

'•That the hereditary succession should be abolished; that all interference 
with political rights should be done away ; and that the funds should be placed 
under the immediate cognizance of the several legislatures, who sin mid also be 
requested to grant charters for more effectually carrying our humane designs 
into execution. 

******** 

And we appeal to your liberality * * * * for the ratification of our pro- 
ceeding 

1784, May iS.f 

Resolved, That it be recommended to the respective State meetings to pro- 
cure, as soon as convenient, two engrossed copies on parchment of the Institu- 
tion, as altered anil amended by this General Meeting, which shall be signed in 
the same manner as the original Institution was directed to be done; one of 
which copies to be delivered to the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary, to be 
kept among the records of the General Society; the other to be retained bythe 
Se< retary uf the State meeting. 



Institution, which was never ratified, all tin I I nerals anil Colonels, and all the 

Admirals and ' French Navy ranking Coloi , who had < — perated with the Armies of the 

United States, were declared i" be " admitted " into the Society as members, and the succession of membership 

was abolished- so that the Frem h officers were t.. be admitted only as members for life, 

' 1 he m- eting of 1784 proceeded, as did also several of the subsequent meetings, up to r8o . lie pro- 

posed amendment t., the Institution was already in force and operative, notwithstanding that in the Circi 
1784 to the Stati . tted to those Societies for ih< ■ a bi I'hi necessity of rati! 

by the Statt - . to the Institution, was recognized by the several General Meet ngt of 

1788,1790, 1 neral Meeting unanimously declared that tie Institution 

remained as ii ed and adopted in 1783. 



34 IHI -i" U w i'l THE CINCINNATI. 

1787, May 7. 

The Society met again in Genera] Meeting. The proposed Amended Institution not hav- 
ing received the ratification of the Si. a. Societies, on the 17th May the following preamble 
and resolution were presented, viz. : 

Whereas, several of the State Societies of the Cincinnati have not agreed to 
the alterations in the Institution proposed at the last General Meeting; and 
whereas, these alterations cannot take effect until they have been agreed to by all the 
Stair Societies : and whereas, it appears to be the general sense of the said 
Societies that some alteration in the Institution ought to be made ; and whereas, 
in the opinion of this meeting, such alterations as may be necessary cannot con- 
veniently and effectually be made but at a General Meeting of the Society of 
the Cincinnati, specially authorized to agree upon, and finally establish the 
same. Therefore 

Resolved, That it be recommended to the several State Societies to empower 
their Delegates at the next General Meeting, to agree upon and finally establish 
all such alterations as may be necessary in the Constitution of the Society. 

On the following day (May 18) the Resolution (without the preamble) was adopted. 

1788, May 8. 

An extra Session having been convened, only Jive States were represented. The Delegates 
present prepared and signed a Circular Letter which was transmitted to the several State 
Societies, in which they say : 

'• We hope that the establishing a permanent Constitution, which requires 
" an unanimous vote of the representatives of all the State Societies, will excite 
" m each an emulation to have its delegates on the floor among the foremost." 

1790, May. 

At a General Meeting on May 4, it was 

Resolved, That it be recommended to, and strongly enjoined upon the 
several State Societies, to empower their delegates at the next General Meeting 
to agree upon and finally establish all such alterations as may be thought neces- 
sarv in the Constitution, and to adopt and carry into execution such measures 
as mav conduce to the security of the funds, and to the promotion of the gene- 
ral interests of the Society 

1 79 1, May. 

An extra General Meeting was held Mav 17m. at which seven State Societies, a majorit) 
of the whole, were represented. It was 

Resolved, That in the opinion of this extra General Meeting, the present 
representation of the several State Societies is not sufficient to make and finally 
establish such alterations as may be thought necessary in the Constitution of 
the Cincinnati, conformably to the resolution and recommendation of the Gene- 
ral Meeting of the 4th of May, 1790. 

Resolved unanimously, That the several State Societies be strongly enjoined 
to send forward a full representation to the next triennial General Meeting, to 
be held in the City of Philadelphia, on the first Monday in May, 1793, fully em- 
powered to agree upon, and finally establish all such alterations as may be 
thought necessary in the General Constitution of the Cincinnati. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 35 

Resolved, That it be recommended to the State Societies to resolve that 
any amendments or alterations in the Institution of the Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, which may be concurred in by the representatives of nine State 
Societies, in the next General Meeting, shall be obligatory upon them, and 
inviolably observed by every State Society, although not therein represented ; 
and to transmit such resolve duly authenticated to the Secretary-General. 



1793, May 6. 

The fourth triennial meeting, convened in Philadelphia, May 6, 1793. Seven State Societies 
were represented Upon examining the proceedings of the several State Societies, which had 
been transmitted to the Secretary-General, it appearing that only five State Societies had 
signified their assent to the recommendation of the extra General Meeting of the 4th May, 1791, 
"that the representation of nine State Societies should be authorized to alter and amend the 
Institution of the Cincinnati, &c," it was 

Unanimously Resolved — 

That the several State Societies of the Cincinnati be again strongly enjoined 
to send forward a full representation to the next triennial General Meeting, to 
be held in the City of Philadelphia, on the first Monday of May, 1796, fully 
empowered to agree upon and finally establish all such alterations as may be 
thought necessary in the General Constitution of the Cincinnati. 

That it be recommended to the State Societies to resolve that any amend- 
ments or alterations in the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, which 
may be concurred in by the representatives of seven* State Societies in the next 
General Meeting, shall be obligatory upon them, and inviolably observed by every 
State Society, although not therein represented, and to transmit such resolve, 
duly authenticated, to the Secretary-General. 

1796. May 2. 

Triennial General Meeting, only five State Societies were represented. The delegates in 
attendance addressed a Circular Letter to the several State Societies, dated May 6, 1796, in 
which they say : 

k * * * Thg proposed alteration of the Constitution, which was deemed 
" of sufficient importance to have claimed the immediate and animated atten- 
" tion of every State Society, has shared the fate of other propositions, and 
" remains yet undetermined. * * * * They recommend that every exertion 
" be made toward completing the State representations in the next triennial 
" General Meeting ; and to guard against the consequences of any failure 
" therein, it is requested that the several State Societies would, in the inter- 
" mediate time, transmit their resolutions, relative to the requisition of 1793, 
" to the Secretary-General." 

1799, May 6. 

At tlu General Triennial Meeting onlj two State Societies were represented. 
Adjourned, to meel in the City of Philadelphia on the fit si Mondaj in Ma) next. 



" : ■ ■' "-' P I ,! "'' 1 ' the rep 11 ■. should be m o ar 



36 the society of the cincinnati. 

1800. May 5, 

adjourned General Meeting was held, eight State Societies being represented. 
A Committee was appointed to examine the Records of the Society, and report to this 
Meeting the state of the Institution. 

This Committee reported as follows : 

The Committee appointed to examine the records of the Society, and to 
report to this meeting the state of the Institution in relation to the alteration of 
onstitution, which was proposed by the General Meeting held in the City 
of Philadelphia in the year 1784, beg leave to report. 

That on inspecting the documents in the possession of the Secretary-General 
they do not find that any additional communications have been made from the 
several State Societies, since the Circular Letter from the General Meeting of 
1796, on the subject of the proposed alteration above referred to. 

From the silence which the State Societies have observed, after the pressing 
Circular Letters of the General Meeting, your Committee are led to conclude 
that they do not accede to the proposed reform; and your Committee conceive 
therefrom that they are authorized to report to the General Meeting — 

I hat the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati remains as it was 
originally proposed and adopted by the officers of the American Army, at their 
Cantonments on the banks of the Hudson River, in 1783. 

Joseph Bloomfiei d, \ 

F.nos Hitchcock, Committee. 



K. 



.1/(71 7th. 180O. 

Which report, on motion of General Smi i h, seconded by Colonel Lawreni 1 . 
was unanimously adopted. 

It was moved by Major Pinckni \, seconded by General How \ki>. 
That a majority of the State Societies, which shall convene in General Meet- 
mo. is competent to recommend alterations in the Constitution, which alterations 
being afterwards assented to by seven State Societies, shall be binding on all 
State Societies: Provided, the consent to such alterations be reported by 
the Societies agreeing to the same, to the next General Meeting. 

The ayes and noes on the foregoing resolutions being taken by State 
-eties, are as follows : 

Massachusetts. N*0. 

Rhode Island. No. 

Connectii ut, No. 

New York, No. 

New Jersey. No. 

Pennsylvania, No. 

Maryland, Divided. 

South Carolina. Divided. 

S 1 it passed in the negative, 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 37 

1825, Nov. 2. 

A Committee having been appointed to inquire and report whether any and what alterations 
in the Constitution are expedient,* reported the following, to be in force as soon as adopted by 
all the State Societies in existence, and due notice thereof accordingly given by each respective 
iv to the Secretary or Assistant Secretary-General, as the case may be. 

1st Amendment. That whenever a vacancy shall happen in regard to any 
of the officers of the General Society, it shall be the duty of the Secretary- 
General, or in case it should have happened to him, of the Assistant Secretary- 
General, to give notice accordingly to the President of each State Society, whose 
duty it shall be, at their next anniversary meeting, to ballot for some suitable 
person to supply such vacancy; whose name shall be transmitted to such Secre- 
tary or Assistant Secretary-General, as the case may be, who shall thereupon 
count up the votes; and the person who shall have a plurality of votes shall suc- 
ceed to such vacancy; and in case of an equality of votes, the one of them who 
may be senior in age shall be such successor. 

2d Amendment. It shall be the duty of the officers of the General Society 
to meet in the City of Philadelphia, on the first Monday in May, at least once in 
every three years, according to their own appointment, or on notice from the 
President-General; and they, or as many as shall convene, shall be a Board, 
under such rules as they may prescribe, to transact such business as might be 
transacted at a Meeting of the General Society, and to call such meetings as 
often as the exigencies of the Society may seem to require. 



* The minutes do not show that the meeting took action on the report, and it is not known that these pro- 
posed amendments were considered by any of the State Societies. It is certain they were not adopted. 



58 THF SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



MEMBERSHIP OF FRENCH OFFICERS. 

17S4. M \v 15. 

Resolved, That the officers of his Most Sacred Majesty's Army and Navy, 
who have served in America, and who were promoted to the rank of Colonel 
for special services, are comprehended in the Institution of the Cincinnati, as 
altered and amended.* 

1 7S4, May 17. 

Resolved, That Monsieur de Tarle. Intendent and Second Officer of the 
French Auxiliary Army, and * * * * (naming several French officers), 
* * are entitled by the spirit and intention of the Institution to become Mem- 
bers of the Cincinnati. 

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this General Meeting that Lieutenant 
Colonel de Bouchet is entitled, from his services, to be admitted a member of 
the Cincinnati, and he is admitted accordingly. 

17S7. M w 17. 

A Committee for devising a mode for furnishing Diplomas to the " Foreign Members of 

the Society." 

Reported [inter alia "that as soon as the said Secretary shall receive the 
the names of the said Foreign Members, he cause the same to be inserted in 
the number of Diplomas necessary, which shall be completed with the signatures 
of the President and the said Secretary. 

That the Secretary transmit those designed for the Marine Officers of France 
to the Count D'Estaing. and those for the land officers to the Count de Rocham- 
beau, senior officers. &c, \c That the Diplomas for the Foreign officers who 
served in the armies of the United States be transmitted to the Marquis de la 
Fayette. 

The report was agreed to. 

A preamble referring to " the brilliant military services of his Excellency the Marquis de \ 
Bouille, late Governor of Martinicoand Commander-in-Chief of his Most Christian Majesty's land 
the West Indies, was adopted, and it was 

Resolved, that the President-General transmit instructions to the President 
or Senior officer of the Society in France to offer to. and invest the Marquis de 
Bouille with the order of the Cincinnati. 

- - \i 1 . ■ 

Resolved, nem. con., That the right of admitting foreign officers except such 
as are under the first and second sections of the General Rules)* is vested in 
the General Meeting, and they are sole judges of such admissions. 



* The Institution, as "altered and amended, "recognized no succession of membership. So far. therefore. 
as this and other resolutions of the General M< adopted in conformity with the proposed 

Institution, confer any right of membership, such right was only for the life of the party. The parties named 

ribution to the funds, and were not required to sign the Rolls, as did the 
Army, and as is required by the Institution. 

* This gentleman did not serve in the Cnited Slates. 

t This exception refers to the 1st and 2nd sections of the proposed Amended Institution, under the 1st section 
of which foreign officers who served under American commissions were entiUed to membership, and the 2d 
proposed to admit French officers the rank of Colonel, who had co-operated with the armies 

United Si 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 39 

i 790, May 4. 

Resolved, That all claims of French gentlemen now before the General 
Meeting for admissions as members be referred to the Count d'Estaing, the 
Count de Rochambeau and the Marquis de la Fayette. 

That the Secretary-General write a letter to the said gentlemen and inform 
them that the General Meeting confide the honour of the Society to their 
keeping as it respects the said claims ; trusting that they will decide thereon 
according to the principles of the Institution and the spirit of the French Gov- 
ernment. 

That on one or more of the said gentlemen duly certifying under his or 
their hands and seals, that any of the persons whose claims are now referred, 
have passed the necessary investigations and approbation in France, the Secre- 
tary-General will transmit the diplomas accordingly. 

1 791, May 4. 

Resolved, That the applications of all French gentlemen on the files of the 
General Meeting, for admission as members of the Cincinnati, be referred to 
the Count d'Estaing, Count de Rochambeau, or the Marquis de la Fayette 
agreeably to the resolve of the 4th of May, 1 790. 

1829, May 5. 

Resolved, That upon application of foreign officers, members* of the Society, 
diplomas are to be issued by the Secretary-General, under the direction of the 
President-General. 

i860, May 2. 

M. le Comte Maurice du Pare applied to be received a member in right of his uncle, the Count 
du Pare Coatrescar, one of the French officers of the rank of Colonel, whom the Society consid- 
ered as member. 

Resolved, That a respectful answer be made by the Secretary-General to M. 
du Pare, stating that the applicant is not, according to the Institution of the 
Society, entitled to membership. 

* Many foreign officers held commissions in the American Army, and as such were entitled to be members of 
the Society under the Institution. 



40 l'HE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



MANNER OF \ OTING. 

1 784. M \\ 5. 

Resolved, unanimously. That the manner of voting be by the Representation 
of each State Society. 

1S4S. Nov. 29. 

Resoh<ed, That on all questions to be decided at the present meeting each 

- te delegation shall be entitled to east three votes, and each of the officers of 
the General Society shall be entitled to cast one vote, and a majority of all the 
votes thus cist shall be necessary to a decision. Also, that it be referred to a 
Committee of one Member from each State delegation, to report, at the next 
meeting oi the General Society, on what principles or rules the votes shall be 
taken in the meetings of the General Society hereafter. 

1S51, May 7. 

The Committee appointed under the preceding resolution reported the following " Ordi- 
nance ": 

•• Be it ordained by the General Society of the Cincinnati, that all elections 
of the officers of this Society shah be by ballot, and that in such elections each 
representation present from a State Society shall be entitled to cast five vote- : 
and each of the officers of the General Society who shall be present, shall be 
entitled to cast one vote : and the majority of all the. votes thus cast shall be 
necessary to an election. 

•■ And be it further ordained, that in the decision oi all resolutions and ques- 
tions submitted to the action of the General Society, the vote shall (upon the- 
request oi any delegate from a State Society, or of any officer present be taken 
in the following manner, viz.: each representation present from a Si I S iety 
shall be entitled to cast live votes : and each of the officers of the General 

- ciety, who shall be present, shall be entitled to cast one vote : and a majority 
of all the votes thus cast shall be necessary for an affirmative decision. And 
upon, an v question thus brought to a vote, the yeas and nays shall be entered 
on the minutes, at the desire of any three members present, whether delegates 
or officers." 



I UK SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 4 I 



PRESIDENT-GENERAL. 



1784, May 7. 

Resolved, That the President-General of the meeting of the Cincinnati for 
the time being shall ever be considered ex-officio a member of all Committees, 
and have a right to debate and vote therein, whenever he may think proper to 
attend. 



STATE TROOPS 

1784, May 13. 

A question having arisen whether, by a construction of the principles of the 
Institution, such officers of the State Troops as have served three years can be 
admitted as Members; Resolved 'in the affirmati\c. 



I HK SOCIE IN «') 1'HK C1NCINN \ 1 I. 



RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

1787, May 14. 

. I 'ommittee for preparing Rules and Regulations for Conducting the business of the Gen- 
eral Meeting R 

I. When seven or more States assemble for business, the members shall 
come to order by taking their scats, and no one shall leave the room until the 
meeting is adjourned, without permission from the President or Chairman. 

II. The order of business shall be to read the Journals, it any, of the pre- 
ceding day, then the Dispatches, then the reports of Committees, and then 
the order of the day ; which, being' completed, other matters may be introduced. 

III. When in session, members shall not speak to one another ; but. 
rising, shall address the themselves to the President or Chairman only. 

[V. All motions, except for adjourning the meeting from day to day, or 
for postponing the decision of a question, shall be made in writing 

Y. No motion shall be debated, nor any question taken thereon, unless the 
same is seconded. 

VI. All questions shall be decided by a majority of State Representations 
present : seven making a quorum. 

VII. All offices and Special Committees shall be appointed by ballot ; but 
in other matters, wherein the members are not agreed, the States shall be called, 
and answer by the words aye and no. 

VIII. Upon a motion of adjournment from day to day. the question shall 
be put without debate, and shall take place of all other questions. 

IX. No member shall speak more than once, until every other member 
who chuses, shall have spoken to the same question ; nor shall any member 
speak oftener than twice, in any case, unh ss splanation, and then, without 
argument. 

X. No member shall interrupt another while speaking, unless to call him 
der. 

XI. All motions in writing shall be open to amendment previously to 
putting the main question : and - - g the whole, or any part 
oi a question shall be first in order. 

XII. Questions of order shall be determined by the President or Chairman 
without debate, but an appeal may be made to the meeting : in which case they 
shall imnu ::er permitting every member who chuses, to speak 
once. 

XIII. In cases to which the preceding rules do not apply, the President or 
Chairman shall conduct the proceedings according to his best discretion. 

The foregoing rules were adopted. 



the society of the cincinnati. 43 

1800, May 7. 

Ordered, That at every General Meeting, after the credentials of the respec- 
tive members shall have been read, the Secretary-General shall read the rules 
and regulations for conducting the business of the General Meeting, as adopted 
May, 1787, previous to any other business. 

1S72, May 29. 

Resolved, That at this, and every succeeding meeting of the General Society 
of the Cincinnati, the principles embodied in the original Institution of the 
Society be read as part of the regular proceedings. 



44 THE SOCIETV OF THE CINCINNATI. 

TENURE OF OFFICE. 
1787, May 19. 

Resolved unanimously — 

That the several officers chosen by this Society, shall hold their offices 
until the last day of the next General Meeting, unless others shall be duly 
elected in their room. 

STATE SOCIETIES TO MAKE REPORTS. 

May 19. 

Ordered. That the several State Societies be punctual hereafter in commu- 
nicating to each General Meeting fair and accurate returns of their respective 
members, properly authenticated, and that the said Societies do, in all things. 
strictly conform to the principles of the Institution. 

1878, May 22. 

A' solved, That at each triennial meeting, the Treasurers of the different 
State Societies report in writing, the amount of funds, the number of benefi- 
ciaries, and the average amount given to each. 



INCORPORATION RECOMMENDED. 

1791, May 5. 

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this extra General Meeting, that it would 
be expedient for the Slate Societies to take proper measures for obtaining Acts 
of Incorporation, so far as may relate to securing to each State Society respect- 
ively their funds, for the charitable objects for which they were designed, and 
that the proper mode of disposing of the same would be by loaning their 
certificates in the Loan Offices of their States respectively, and of subscribing 
their funds, whenever it may be convenient, to the Bank of the United States. 



••THE DIAMOND INSIGNIA." 
181 1, August 8. 

The President-General reported to the General Society — 
That the Diamond Insignia of the Order of the Cincinnati, which had been 
presented by the Marine Officers of France, who were members of the Society, 
to his Excellency General Washington — and by the heirs of the General, had 
been sent to General Hamilton, was delivered to him (General Pinckney by 
Mrs Hamilton — and as he conceived that this testimonial of respect for the 
immortal Washington, which his heirs had delivered to General Hamilton, and 
Mr>. Hamilton had been pleased to confide to him, as President-General of the 
Society, ought, in respectful remembrance of her flattering distinction, to be here- 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 45 

after considered as appurtenant to the office of President-General, he requested 
that this memorandum might be inserted on the records of the General Society. 
Whereupon it was unanimously resolved, That the respectful and affectionate 
thanks of the General Society of the Cincinnati be presented to Mrs Hamilton 
for this highly Acceptable present ; and that the wish of the President-General, 
expressed in his memorandum is respectfully acceded to by the Society. 



MEETINGS. 

From iSo<; to 1S25, with the exception of the triennial meeting in 1811, the minutes are 
wanting. A manuscript letter to the President of the New York State Society, from a delegate, 
give-- an account of an adjourned meeting held in September, 1812, at which only four State 
- lies were represented, and no business was transacted. 

All the meetings up to 1812 were either regular triennial meetings or meetings held by 
adjournment. In 1S25 the President-General and Vice-President-General having died, the Sec- 
retary-General appointed a meeting of the General Society to be held November 1, 1S25. 

1829, May 5. 

Resolved, that such State Societies and officers of the General Society as 
convene in General Meetings, shall be competent to transact business. 

1832, May 7. 

Resolved, That the President-General be authorized to call a meeting of the 
General Society, whenever circumstances may appear to render it necessary : 
also that the State Societies be requested to appoint delegates annually to 
represent them in the General Meeting. 

1838, May 7. 

Resolved, That until further orders are given on the subject, the stated tri- 
ennial meetings of the Society be dispensed with, and that future meetings be 
held when directed by the President-General, or in the event of his absence or 
death, by the Vice-President-General; and that it shall be the duty of the Secre- 
tary-General to give due notice of the same t 1 the several State Societies of the 
Cincinnati in existence at such times. 

Resolved, That the different State Societies of the Cincinnati be requested, 
annually to appoint delegates to attend any meeting tnat may be called. 



SITUATION OF THE STAIR SOCIETIES IN i8ii. 
1S1 1, August 8. 

Ordered, That a Committee of three members be appointed to ascertain the present situation 
of the several State Societies, and to make report to the General Society. 

August 9. The following report was read and unanimously agreed to: and it was ordered 
that the Circular Letter be signed by the President and Secretary General in behalf of the dele- 
gates. 

"In obedience to the resolve of the General Society, which instructs your 
Committee " to ascertain the present situation of the several State Societies of 



46 THE SOCIETY OF I HI CINCINNATI. 

the Cincinnati.'' your Committee beg leave to report that, as far as their limited 
inquiry extends, it appears, on the information of some of its members, that a 
pert ion of the members of the Delaware Society have dissolved that Society, 
and distributed its funds. And on less authentic information it would also 
seem that portions of the members of the Connecticut and Virginia State 
Societies of the Cincinnati have also dissolved their societies, and diverted their 
funds from the purposes to which they were originally pledged, and that the 
other State Societies of the Cincinnati continue under the original Constitu- 
tion, as agreed on by the officers of the American Army on the banks of the 
Hudson in the year 1783. 

" Your Committee beg leave further to report that, under a consideration of 
these circumstances, they think it advisable to address a letter from the General 
Society of the Cincinnati to the respective State Societies: the following draught 
of which they respectfully submit." 

Ii was unanim msly ordered that the proposed letter be sent to the several State Societies; 
as follows: 

" To the Stati- Society of the Cincinnati. 

I rged by all the considerations, which an endeared remembrance of the 

causes that led to the organization of the Society of the Cincinnati can sug- 
gest, and under an anient wisli to perpetuate the benevolent objects for which 
it was instituted, the delegates to the General Society, now convened at Phila- 
delphia, have resolved, without reserve, to communicate the sentiments with 
which they are deeply impressed, t 1 the several State Societies. 

" It is witli extreme regret they state that the apprehension, heretofore enter- 
tained, and often expressed, that the neglect, on the part of several State 
S01 icties. t<> appoint delegates to the General Society, would be productive of 
the most serious consequences, is alarmingly realised by the inconsiderate act 
of a portion "\ the members of one or more State Societies, in dissolving their 
official connection as members of the Cincinnati, ami in distributing those 
funds which had long ceased to be individual property, or liable to any but 
their original appropriation. An act such as this most evidently involves a 
departure from the solemn engagement, entered into on the banks of the Hud- 
son, to perpetuate the Institution, and to preserve unalienated, and unimpaired, 
those funds which had been sacredly devoted to the relief of distressed mem- 
bers and their families. That this deeply regretted cessation of intercom- . 
between the General an 1 State Societies, has been the influential cause of these 
errors, is our most serious conviction ; and that the best corrective of these 
unconstitutional proceedings will be found in the immediate renewal of that 
endeared intercourse, no one who indulges the recollection of the scenes, that 
passed in the service of our beloved country, can for a moment hesitate to 
believe. 

" It is, therefore, most eamestl] 1 commended to the several Statl S01 ieties 
that they would not only appoint delegates to attend the next meeting oi the 
General Society, which will be held at Philadelphia on the second Tuesday of 
September. 1S1 j, but that they would enjoin their punctual attendance, as the 



IE I \ <>l I MI VTI. 47 

most efficient means of restoring that harmony which ought for* subsist 

between men, who. as faithful comrades in honor and misfortune, must anx- 
iously desire, by the continuance of this Society, to transmit a grateful remem- 
brance of their union, and of those services, by which the national claim to 
sovereignty and independence was established.* 

■ Done in General Society of the Cincinnati at Philadelphia, August 9, 1811, 

By unanimous Order, 

( HARLES CO'J ESWOR1 H PINCKN 

dent-General. 
•■ \\\ Jackson, 

Seer eta ry - General. 



1829, May 5. 

Resolved. That the members residing in any State not having a State Society 
of the Cincinnati, may form themselves into such State Society. 



* I he New Hampshire Sta*- :.nued to hold its meetings regularly until 1823, but subsequently 

became extinct. The last of its original members (Capt.-Da-. ■ died about the year 1830. In 

son. John W. Gookin, of North Yarmouth, Maine, presented the books and papers of th- 

Hampshire Historical Society, who have published the proceedings of the Cincinnati in the sixth volume of their 
collet! 

names published by the New Hampshire Historical Society, there appear to have been 
•.-nine original members belonging to the State Society. 

Connecticut - at its Ann: .dopted the followir,. 

-.necticut State Society shall, this 4th day of July, 1804, be dissolved, and that each 
r, his legal heirs or representatives, shall be enr ■ tioo of the funds of I 

equal proportions to the sums by them respectively paid in, as soon as the same can be ascertained by a committee 
appointed for that purpose." A committee was appointed to make out a schec Hginal members, the 

sums which they had respectively paid in, and the amount which tl entitled to receive. A sub- 

sequent meeting was to be held for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee and distributing the fund*. 
It was further resolved "that all money belonging to this society, r 

next, shall be by said committee placed in the Treasury of Y. . for the 

>rrs or their legal representatives," 4c„ Sic. 
By a -. ore of the Society, all its books, papers and other documents were deposited in the hands of Johi 

in the keeping of ■ . -d, with 

whom they are understood to have been deposited by the heirs of John Mix. 

On the original Roll of the Connecticut State Society, deposited in the Hi ' y. there appear two 

hundred and forty-eight names of original member the Army) and eleven in right of deceased 

officers. 

At the meeting on the 4th July, 1804, a committee on the Treasurer's account* estimated the funds. 
y at upward- 
The Delaware State Society is understood to have continued its existence but a short time. At a me*-* 
the Ken . August 2, 1804, a letter was read from Edward Roach, late Secretary of the Delaware 

State Society, stating that that Society had been dissolved long since, and the funds been divided an 
members. 

A list of members of the Delaware Society, returned to the General Society in 17&8, shows I 
original members. 

"Wit Virginia State Society. — The committee <of rSf S) «ras in error in reporting the dissolution of tl 
Hon. Francis T. Brooke, formerly Judge of Appeals :n Virginia, in a letter written 
states that he had formerly been Vice-President of the Virginia Society; that its last meeting was held in 

-en a resolution wa> passed directing the Vice-President and Trea > bsonj to transfer the funds 

to " Washington College, at Lexington," and then dissolved. 

It is understood that the minutes, ftc, of the Virginia Society are in existence, and that they are soon to be 
published by the Virginia State Historical Society. 

The North Carolina State Society was represented in the General M 

iety. But little has been traced of either of these tf that an election of officers 

of the Georgia Society was held in 1795, but no later account has been found. 



,|S I HI SOCIETY OF I UK CINCINNATI. 



DESCENT THROUGH FEMALE LINE. 

. May 5. 

\ question having arisen whether, in case of the death of a member having 
no male issue except a grandson, the issue of a daughter, such grandson shall 
lie preferred to make collaterals: the Society conceived the true construction to 
lie that the grandson shall be preferred, he being in the direct line of descent. 



ELECTIOM OF MEMBERS— TENURE OF OFFICE. 

1544. Nov. 

Resolved, That the Secretary-Genera] be requested to collect from the 
minutes and proceedings of the Society the different rules and regulations 
which have from time to time been adopted in regard to the election and tenure 
o\ office of the members and officers thereof. 

1545. Nov. 29. 

At a meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, held in Philadelphia, 
the 29th November. 1848, the Secretary-General made the accompanying report, 
in conformity with a resolution of the special meeting of November 28, 1S44, 
which was adopted, and ordered to be printed for the use of member- oi the 
State Societii - 

••A That the Secretary-General be requested to collect from the 

minutes anil proceedings of the Society the different rules and regulations that 
have been from time to time adopted in regard to the election and tenure of 
members and officers thereof." 

•• The Secretary-General reports : 

••That he has carefully examined all the minutes and proceedings of the 

ty in his possession, and respectfully submits the following as the 
result : 

•■ The Constitution, accepted by the Society in 1 7S3. provides that the mem- 
ber- shall consist ot the officers of the American Army, as well those who 
have resigned with honour, after three years' service in the capacity of officers. 
or who have been deranged by the resolutions of Congress, upon the several 
reforms of the army, as those who shall have continued to the end of the war. 
Those officers who are foreigners, not resident in any of the States, to have their 
names enrolled by the Secretary-General. And declares the Society shall 
endure as long as they endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and in 
failure thereof, the collateral branches, who may be judged worthy of becoming 
ts - pporters and membt - 

•• This last provision is extended in like manner to the descendants of such 
officers as had died in the service. 

" The admission of honorary members./',"- th , - also provided 

for by the Constitution ; but they are not to exceed in number in each S 
tio ^<i one to four of the officers or their descendants. 



THE SOCIETY OF THK I IN' INNATI. 49 

" The same instrument directs that, "in the general meeting, the President, 
Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treas- 
urer-General, shall be chosen to serve until next meeting." 

" At the first general meeting of the Society, held on the 4th of May, 1784, 
and continued by adjournment until the 1 8th of said month, it was unanimously 
resolved, " that the manner of voting be by the representation of each State 
Society." Subsequently, at said meeting, material alterations in the Constitu- 
tion were agreed to, affecting {inter alia) the election and tenure of members 
and officers. These alterations, however, never received the sanction of the 
State Societies, as appears by the unanimous adoption, in general meeting, in 
May, a. D. 1800, of the following report of a committee appointed to examine 
the records of the Society, and report to said meeting the state of the insti- 
tution, viz. : 

" That the institution of the Society of the Cincinnati remains as it was 
originally proposed and adopted by the officers of the American Army, at their 
cantonments on the banks of the Hudson, in 1783." 

"Since the re-acknowledgment of the original institution, the Secretary- 
General finds nothing touching the election or tenure of members, except the 
following, extracted from the minutes of a general meeting, held on the 4th of 
Ma) , 1X29, viz. : 

" A question having arisen whether, in case of the death of a member having 
no male issue except a grandson, the issue of a daughter, such grandchild shall 
be preferred to collaterals ; the Society conceives the true construction of the 
( 'institution to be, that the grandchild shall be preferred, he being in the direct 
line of descent." 

" And in relation to the officers of the Society, he finds that since the substi- 
tution of special for stated triennial meetings, the officers have been chosen for 
three years, and thenceforward until a new election takes place. 

A. W. JOHNSTON, Secretary-General." 



TRUSTEES TO HOLD FUNDS. 

184S, Nov. 30. 

Resolved, That the Chairman appoint three Trustees, of whom the Treasurer- 
General, for the time being, shall be one, in whose joint names all investments of 
the funds of the General Society shall be made, and who shall change and trans- 
fer such investments to their successors or otherwise, as the Society shall from 
time to time direct. 

Also resolved, That in case of the death or resignation of one of the said 
Trustees, the survivors shall have power to appoint a Trustee in his place, to 
hold office until the next meeting of the Society. 

Mr. A. W. Johnston and Mr. Markland were appointed Trustees in conjunction with the 
Treasurer-General. 

1856, May. Mr. John McDowell, Jun., was appointed Trustee in place of A. W. Johnston, 
id ; and in [863 Mr. Robert Adams was appointed in place of Mr Markland, deceased. 



50 the society of the ( i\< innate 

1875, May 13. 

Resolved, That the U. S. Bonds belonging to the Society, and any other secu- 
rities which may hereafter be acquired, be invested in the joint names of the 
Treasurer-General and Assistant Treasurer-General as Trustees, with the right 
of survivorship, and that in case of any change in either of these officers, from 
death or other cause, that the said Bonds and Securities be transferred (from 
time to time) to the actual officers above named — and immediately upon the 
appointment of a new Trustee all investments of the Societies' Securities shall 
be transferred to the joint names of the then existing Trustees, as joint 
tenants. 

(875, May 13. 

Resolved, That the Treasurer-General be directed to deposit the current 
receipts of money from our funds in such bank as he may select with the con- 
currence of the President-General, to the credit of the General Society of the 
Cincinnati, subject to the draft of the Treasurer-General for the time being, or, 
in case oi his death, of the Assistant-Treasurer. 



EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS. 

1 S54, May 18. 

Resolved, That in future the expenses of the General Meetings of the Society 
bi borne in equal proportions by the State Societies, whether represented or 
not. 



TITLE, &( ., OF MEMBERS 

1855, I-I B. 7. 

Resolved, That hereafter no other title than that of Mr. be used in desig- 
nating members m the minutes of the General Society. 

1863, May 14. 

Resolved, That the resolution adopted on 7th February, 1855, whereby it was 
ordered "that hereafter no other title than that of Mr. be used in designating 
members in the minutes of the General Society," be and the same is hereby 
rescinded. 



CHAPLAINS. 

i860, May 2. 

Resolved, That one or more Chaplains be appointed. Also, that the Rev. Mr. 
Alfred L. Baury, Rev. Mr. David Smith, and the Rev. Mr. Maucius S. Hutton, 
be such Chaplains. 

1863, May 14. Rev. Charles S. Beatty was, on motion, appointed one of the Chaplains. 



THE SOCIETY OF THF. CINCINNATI. SI 

SUCCESSION AND ADMISSION OF .MEMBERS. 

185 1, May. 

A Committee appointed in 1848 to inquire and report with regard to the admission of mem- 
bers, &.c, reported (among other things) as follows : 

" The best answer to be given to the inquiry proposed to the Committee, is 
not by any innovation, but by the just interpretation of those principles that 
prevailed during the life-time of the founders. They laid down certain great 
principles, which we hold sacred and inviolable ; our feelings, our judgment, 
and our duty concur in inhibiting the suggestion of change in them. 

"The Society of the Cincinnati was not limited to the lives of its founders, 
or to those of their immediate families. It was established as a Society of 
Friends, to endure as long as any of their eldest male posterity, and on failure 
thereof, the collateral branches, who might be judged worthy of becoming its 
members. 

'■ Although these terms did not, by their own force, provide any distinct and 

positive limitation, relating as they did more precisely to the duration of the 

Society, they certainly contemplated the principle of hereditary succession, in 

the lineage of the first founder ; providing against an extinction of the Society 

on the failure of the eldest male branch of his posterity, by embracing under 

the description of 'collaterals,' all his other male descendants, not confined to 

any specific line (male or female of derivation." 

* * * ***** 

•• The Committee may here advert to the original distinction marked between 

the 'eldest male posterity' and the 'collateral branches;' that is, in terms, 

between the eldest and collateral male branches. It is obvious, as used in this 

connection, that the word 'collateral' meant collateral to 'eldest male ;' in other 

words, the term denoted the younger branches of the male posterity ; and it 

did not intend to embrace, except, perhaps, remotely, brothers or nephews of 

original members.'' 

******** 

" In this connection the Committee would refer to the action of the General 
Meeting, held in Philadelphia, in May, 1829, when 'a question having arisen 
whether, in case of the death of a member having no male issue except a 
grandson, the issue of a daughter, such grandson shall be preferred to male 
collaterals ; the Society conceived the true construction of the Constitution to 
be, that the grandson shall be preferred, he being in the direct line of descent.' 

" Doing away with the apparent distinction drawn between eldest and col- 
lateral in the lineal descent, and opening the succession equally to all in the 
direct line of descent of the first founder, allows room for choice on the ground 
of merit, and leaves the question solely, who shall fill the place with most advan- 
tage! Proper distinction is still to be maintained between those in direct line 
and other more remote collaterals — in favor of the former, so long as any of 
the former are found worthy. And there will be no danger that the preference 
given to the eldest will not prevail, as long as those proper feelings of mankind, 
which point to the eldest son as the natural successor of the father in the seat 
of honor, while there is no other more worthy to enjoy it, shall continue. That 
a due regard will always be paid to the predilections of the founders of the 



52 I HI SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

[nstitution, we may safely trust to the sentiments of filial piety and reverence in 
their descendants. The prescriptive preference of the eldest sun has been 
religiously observed by most of the State Societies. That the fundamental 
principle has been faithfully preserved, and that the Institution stands on its 
hereditary ground, the best attestation is, that while the original members are 

almost gone, their places arc chiefly filled by their eldest lineal descendants." 

* * ****** 

" It is in vain, in the present diversity of practice, to exact a uniform rule, 
or extract from the variety more than a general principle ; or to insist upon any 
ground but one that shall embody the spirit, ami embrace the objects of the 
original Institution in its comprehensive scope, limiting the succession to the 
blood of the Revolution. 

"The Committee is, therefore, brought to the conclusion that the Institution 
remains on the original foundation oi 1783, subject, however, to some modifi- 
cation ol the strict technical construction of the terms therein used with regard 
to the hereditary sin cession, congenial to the spirit of our civil institutions, and 
in accordance with the sense of the General Society and of the State Societies, 
as expressed 111 reference to the proposed amendment of i;Sj: that the right 
of succession is not absolute even in the eldest son, but is subject to the right 
of the Societ) to judge whether he be 'worthy of becoming its supporter and 
member.' That this right of the Society to judge of the merit of the applicant 
applies equally to the eldest son and to the 'collateral branches,' descending 
from the original members : and thus that the right of succession, by title of 
primogeniture, is wholly subordinate to the claim oi worth and merit on the 
part of the applicant. 

" The Committee believe this to have been the final intention of the framers 
of the Institution, and also to be a fair construction of the language of that 
instrument. At all event-, the silent action and usage of the Society, in all its 
branches, for considerably more than half a century, ha- given a construi tion 
to this principle which cannot well now be questioned. 

•• In the Ordinance submitted herewith expression is distinctly given to this 

i onstruction." 

* * ****** 

"The Committee believe that they express the feeling o\ every member of 
the Society when they declare their entire unwillingness to extend the right of 
membership in an) succession, whether lineal or collateral, beyond the descend- 
ant-, or other representatives of the officers ol the American Army during the 
\\ ar ot the Revolution. 

"From them it is hoped and believed that the Society may be recruited to 
a- original strength and vigor. 

■• 1'he Committee has neither been willing nor felt itself at liberty to suggest 
any rule which should conflict with the great principles which were laid down 
in the establishment of the Institution. These t .1 as -acred, invio- 

lable. 

■■ The sources whence increased numbers are hoped for under the plan 
recommended by the Committee, and embraced in the Ordinance reported here- 
with, are two-fold. 1. The descendants ot officers oi the American Army of 
the Revolution, who did not themselves become members of the Society. 



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53 



2. The admission of all the adult male descendants of the original members of 
the Society instead of confining the representation to a single descendant. 

•• The original Institution does not restrict the representation of the officer of 
the army who became a member of the Society, to a single descendant of such 
officer. The Society is ' to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of their 
eldest male posterity, etc. — who ma) - be judged worthy of becoming its sup- 
porters and members.' This language, it may be argued, admits of more than 
one of such posterity being admitted : and it has been shown, that the practice 
in at least one State Society, has been to admit several representatives of the 
original stock, at the same time ; and this practice is entirely in accordance with 
the spirit of that design of the founders of the Institution, which sought to 
' perpetuate as well the remembrance of a vast event, as the friendships formed 
under the pressure of common danger,' and ' particularly to extend a 
beneficence towards those officers and their families, who unfortunately may be 
under the necessity of receiving it.' 

" It will be observed, that the Ordinance reported herewith, proposes to 
recognize, in terms, the right of any State Society to admit all the adult male 
descendants of any officer of the American Army of the Revolution, who was, 
or who was entitled to have become a member of the Society, but not the 
absolute right of such descendants to claim admission without regard to the 
judgment of the Society. 

" With these observations, the Committee submit the result of their deliber- 
ations, in the form of an Ordinance, for the consideration of the General 
ety. 

Should this Ordinance, in whole or in part, meet the approbation of the 
General Society, or be susceptible of amendment, so as to secure such appro- 
bation, it will, in the opinion of the Committee, be necessary that it be trans- 
mitted in the form eventually approved, to the several State Societies for their 
approval and ratification ; and if approved and adopted by them, the Com- 
mittee recommend that it be considered and declared a rule for future action 
in the admission of members to the Society of the Cincinnati." 

This report was adopted and the Ordinance reported bv the Committee was adopted by the 
General Meeting in the form following, and its adoption recommended to the State Societies : 



AN ORDINANCE 

RELATIVE TO TH 1 *ND AD1 IF MEMBERS. 

Be it ordained by the Society of the Cincinnati, 

I. That lineal succession to membership shall be according to the rules of 
inheritance at the common law, except only as in these canons it is otherwise 
provided: and provided that none but males shall at anytime be admitt 
membership. 

II. In lineal succession the officer of the Army of the Revolution who is or 
was a member, or who had a right to become a member, shall in all cases be 
deemed and taken as the propositus from whom succession shall be derived. 



54 1HK SOCIETY OF IHF CINCINNATI. 

III. No person under the age of twenty-one years shall be admitted a member: 
but the right of membership in lineal succession having been established, the 
use of that right shall remain in abeyance until the applicant shall attain the 
full age of twenty-one years. 

IV. Hereafter all male descendants of officers of the Revolutionary Army 
may be admitted to membership by any oi the State Societies : but such 
admission shall be upon terms, that is to say : each and every of the male 
descendants of the said officers so to be admitted, except such as shall or may 
be entitled in lineal succession from his father, or other progenitor, shall pay 
into the Treasury of the State Society into which he shall be admitted, the sum 
of sixty dollars. 

V. The General Society of the Cincinnati shall have power and authority 
to admit honorary members at their discretion. 

VI. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of each of the State Societies to 
transmit annually, between the fourth day oi July and the first day of October, 
to the Secretary-General, a certified list of all the officers and members of the 
State Society to which he shall belong. 

VII. Each and every oi the State Societies shall pay into the Treasury of 
the General Society the sum of ten dollars, for the account of the admission of 
every member who shall be admitted under or by virtue of the fourth canon, 
before mentioned. 

VIII. In case of an application for admission as a member, by right of 
descent in the lineal succession, as recognized in the first of these canons, if the 
State Society to which such application be presented, shall be of opinion 
that from any cause the applicant is unworthy to be admitted, they may decline 
to admit such applicant, and hold the right of succession in abeyance. 

1S54, Mai 18. 

The Ordinance relative to the succession and admission of members, recommended at the last 
triennial meeting to the action of the State Societies, being called up - deration, and it 

appearing from the Secretary-General's report of the communications made to him on th. 
that s State S cieties had not concurred in said Ordinances, it was announced by the Pi - 

dent-General that the Ordinances not having received the assent of all the State So< sties have 
failed to be adopted. 

The following preamble and resolutions were reported by a committee, viz.: 

Whereas, the Ordinances relating s cession and membership, proposed at 
the last triennial meeting to the several State Societies for their sanction, do 
not appear to have been adopted by them, while no disagreement or dissatis- 
faction has been evinced, in respect to the general principles contained in the 
report submitted with the same, which has been received with favor and 
approved, so far as opinion has been expressed : therefore, in order to carry out 
those principles more satisfactorily, and at the same time to harmonize their 
results with the views and practical constructions prevailing among the different 
State Societies. 



III! 50CIETY 01 THE CINCINNATI. 55 

Resolved, That each State Society shall have the full right and power to 
regulate the admission of members, both as to the qualifications of the members 
and the terms of admission. Provided, that admission be confined to the male 
descendants of original members, or of those who are now members (including 
collateral branches as contemplated by the original Constitution ; or to the male 
descendants of such officers of the Army or Navy as may have been entitled to 
admission, but who failed to avail themselves thereof within the time limited 
by the Constitution ; or to the male descendants of such officers of the Army 
or Navy of the Revolution as may have resigned with honor or left the service 
with reputation ; or to the male collateral relatives of any officer who died in 
service without leaving issue. 

Resolved, That the male descendants of those who were members of State 
Societies which have been dissolved, may be admitted into existing Societies 
upon such terms as those Societies may think proper to prescribe. 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions b; proposed to the several State 
Societies and their assent be requested thereto ; and upon such assent being 
given by each of the remaining Societies, the Secretary-General shall issue 
notice thereof to each Society ; and thereupon the said resolutions shall become 
operative, and each State Society shall be at liberty to act upon the power given 
thereby. 

1856, May. 

Tin- resolutions recommended by the General Meeting, held in 1S54, for adoption 1>\ the 
several State Societies, not having received the concurrent approval of these Societies, the General 
Meeting held in Trenton, May, 1856, at which delegates were present from five State Societies, 
viz. : Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, the following pre- 
amble and resolutions were adopted, viz. : 

Whereas, the resolutions in reference to the admission of members which 
were adopted by the triennial meeting at Baltimore in May, 1854, were the 
result of careful deliberation and successive action continued though a number 
of years; 

And, whereas, the said meeting was the first and only one at which 
there was a full representation of all the State Societies, in addition to the 
whole of the officers, and said action was concurred in by all the officers and 
representatives present at said meeting ; 

And, whereas, this meeting is satisfied thit a large majority of the State 
Societies desire the adoption of said resolutions, and deem it more consistent 
with the principles of the General Society that the State Societies should be 
permitted to exercise their judgment within the limits named in said resolu- 
tions, than that either the majority or minority of said Societies should control 
the action of the other. Therefore, 

Resolved, That the resolution adopted at the last triennial meeting, requir- 
ing the assent of the several State Societies to the resolutions in relation to the 
admission of members, as the condition on which the said resolutions shall 
become operative, be. anil the same is hereby, repealed.* 



* The effect of this resolution has been supposed to give immi diate 1 and opei ition to the first .mil si 1 ond 

resolutions proposed by the triennial I ral Meeting "f 1854. for assent b; thi several Stati ind these 

resolutions have ai cordingly been acted upon by several of the Stair Si h ii ties 

See, however, the resolution of the General Society, in May, 1800 [antt , pag< 16) 



56 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



REVIVAL OF EXTINCT OR SUSPENDED STATE SOCIETIES. 

i860. May 3. 

It having been suggested that in several of the States where the Society of 
the Cincinnati has been suspended or is now extinct, there is a disposition 
evinced by the descendants of the original members to renew their association 
and admission into union with the Genera] Society. Therefore 

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer with such persons as are 
interested in the restoration of the several societies above referred to, and that 
they be invited to appoint delegates to confer with the General Society, at the 
next or any subsequent meeting, on the subject of their admission into union 
with the same. 

Resolved, That the Committee of Conference consist of three members of this 
body, who shall be and hereby are empowered to act in the premises at their 
discretion. 

The President-General appointed Mr. Baury, Mr. Markland, and Mr. Ttlgh- 
man, to be that committee. 

(}\\ motion of Mr. Scott, seconded by Mr. Patterson, it was resolved that 
the President-General be requested to take part in the proceedings of this 
committee. 

1863, May. 

The Rev. Mr. Baury, chairman of the Committee on the Restoration of 
.ties in States where it has become extinct, read the following : 

The Committee appointed at the Triennial Meeting of the General Society 
of the Cincinnati, assembled in the City of Philadelphia. May 2. 1S60. for the 
purpose of " conferring with such persons as are interested in the restoration of 
the Society in the several States where the Association of the Cincinnati has 
been suspended, or is now extinct," respectfully report : 

That the disturbed state of the country has rendered it impracticable for 
your Committee to prosecute the object of their appointment with any reason- 
able prospect of success. 

A correspondence has, however, been opened on the subject of your Com- 
mittee's appointment, with Samuel H. Parsons, Esq.. of Middle-town. Connecti- 
cut, from which the following facts have been adduced : 

1. That the late General Parsons, of the Army of the Revolution, was Presi- 
dent of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati at the time of its dissolution. 

2. That the records and papers of said Society were deposited or are now in 
the Connecticut Historical Rooms in the City of Hartford. 

3. That individuals claiming to be the representatives of original members 
of said Connecticut Society, have been admitted to membership, with all its 
rights and privileges, in several of the States where the Society of the Cincin- 
nati still maintains an honorable existence. 

In submitting this their report to the General Society of the Cincinnati, the 
undersigned respectfully request to be discharged from the further prosecution 
of a -ubject which, under more favorable circumstances in our national history. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 57 

may in its results prove of importance to the best interests of our venerable 
Association. 

Signed in behalf of the Committee, 

ALFRED L. BAURY, 
New York, May 14, 1863. Chairman. 

The report was accepted and the Committee discharged from the further 
consideration of the subject. 

1872, May 29. 

On motion of Admiral Thatcher, the following preamble and resolution were 
adopted, and referred to a committee of one from each State : 

Whereas, In consequence of inquiries from descendants of Revolutionary 
officers residing in Rhode Island and Connecticut, transmitted through Admiral 
Thatcher of Massachusetts, and Mr. Greaton of New York, as to whether the 
reorganization of defunct State Societies required the permission of the General 
Society. 

Resolved, That it be referred to a committee, to consist of a member from 
each State Society, to inquire and report on the expediency and propriety of 
permitting (and upon what terms and conditions; the reorganization of any 
State Society, now dissolved, which might apply to the General Society tor 
permission to reorganize. 

The Chairman named as the committee on Admiral Thatcher's resolution : 

Admiral H. K. Thatcher, Massachusetts; Mr. Jno. W. Greaton, New York ; 
Mr. Win. B. Dayton, New Jersey ; Com. A. H. Kilty, Maryland ; Mr. James L. 
Harmar, Pennsylvania; and Mr. James Simons, Jr., South Carolina. 

M ay 30. 

Mr. Dayton from the committee of inquiry by Admiral Thatcher, respecting 
the reorganization of the State Societies that have disbanded and divided their 
funds, read the following report, which was agreed to, and ordered to be entered 
on the minutes : 

To the General Society of the Cincinnati : 

Your committee to whom was referred the resolution offered on Wednesday, 
May 29th, by Admiral Thatcher, at the request of parties in the States of Rhode 
Island and Connecticut, looking to and soliciting permission to resuscitate the 
Societies of the Cincinnati in those respective States, and, after such reorgan- 
ization, to be admitted to full representation in the General Society, respectfully 
report that they have given the subject mature and careful discussion and 
deliberation, and as the result thereof, respectfully submit for your consideration 
and action the following : 

While we are fully convinced of the supreme authority of the General Society 
in such matters, and cannot and do not admit the right of any State Society, 
which has once had an existence, and has since disbanded, and distributed the 
fund which was the main basis of their original organization, to resume its 
original status, yet we feel, and so report, after a review of the question pre- 



58 THE SOCH t\ OF ["HE CINCINNATI. 

sented, that it may be expedient and proper for the General Society to receive 
and consider any such application which may he made, provided that the same 
is made to the Society after a temporary organization has been effected by 
those applying ; satisfactory evidence has been presented that the amount of 
the fund existing at the time of the disbandment of the Society has been fully 
made up (with simple interest from the date of such disbandment), a list being 
furnished of the descendants of original members now residing in the States who 
desire to revive the organization ; and a full statement of the facts which 
induced such disbandment, and the disposition made of such funds by the 
members having the control of them at that time. 

HENRY R. THATCHER, 

Chat i man of Committee. 

1S7S. May 22. 

Descendants of some of the Original Members of the Rhode Island State Society, having 
taken measures to resuscitate that State Society, presented to the General Meeting, assembled in 
Philadelphia, the following Application : 

Aldine Hotel, Philadelphia, ^jd May, 1S7S. 
To GEORGE W. Harris, Secretary-General 0, t the Cincinnati — Present. 

Sir : The Delegates appointed by the " Society of the Cincinnati, in the 
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" beg leave to present their 
credentials as representatives oi said Society, and respectfully request action 
thereon. 

We have the honor to be. Sir. 

Very respectfully, your obedient servants, 
NATH'L GREEN, 
DAVID KING, 
ASA BIRD GARDNER, 
JAMES M. VARNUM, 
DANIEL WAN I"ON LYMAN. 

On motion oi Gen. Cochrane, the following resolution was adopted, viz.: 
Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed by the Chair to consider 
the subject of the reorganization oi State Societies that have been dissolved; to 
inquire into the circumstances attending the dissolution of any Society; the 
distribution of the funds : and that the papers and credentials in regard to any 
such application be" referred to the said Committee. 

The Chair appointed Gen. Cochrane. Rev. Dr. Lothrop, Judge Nixon. Dr. 
Wm. A. Irvine and Mr. James Simmons. Jr.. the Committee under the resolution. 

Man 23. 

General Cochrane. Chairman oi the Committee appointed yesterday on the 
subject of the Claims of Societies that had been dissolved, presented a report, 
and, by leave, submitted also the dissenting views of a minority of the Com- 
mittee, which, on motion of Mr. Hamilton, were accepted for consideration. 



THE SOCIETY OI THE CINCINNATI. 59 

Judge Nixon moved the adoption of the Majority Report. 

General Cochrane moved to amend by adopting the Minority Report. 

On motion of Judge Elmer, a recess was taken until half-past two. 

Upon reassembling the consideration of the report was resumed, and after 
discussion thereupon, Mr. Hamilton moved that the application of the Rhode 
Island Society be recommitted to the Committee to obtain fuller information, 
and to report at the next meeting of the Society. 

At the request of a Delegate present, the vote upon this resolution was taken 
as provided by the rule adopted in 1851, and it passed in the affirmative. Ayes, 
14 — Nays. 11. And thus the resolution was adopted, and the application 
recommitted. 

1881, April 15. 

General Cochrane presented the following unanimous report of four of the 
members of the Committee (the fifth, Judge Nixon, not having been present at 
their deliberations, nor being at the meeting of the Society). 

The Committee, to so much of the resolution under which they were 
appointed as directs them to consider the reorganization of State Societies 
that have been dissolved, report, that having carefully examined that branch of 
the subject referred to them, in their opinion no further or other rule is neces- 
sary than that already existing and accepted by the Society, at the stated Trien- 
nial meeting thereof, May 29, 1872, and then and there agreed to, and ordered 
to be placed upon its minutes in the words following, viz.: 

To the General Society of the Cincinnati : 

Vour Committee to whom was referred the Resolution offered on Wednesday, May 29th. by 
Admiral Thatcher, at the request of parties in the States of Rhode Island and Connecticut, 
locking to and soliciting permission to resuscitate the Societies of the Cincinnati in those respective 
States, and, after such re organization, to be admitted to full representation in the General Society, 
respectfully report that they have given the subject mature and careful discussion and deliberation, 
and, as the result thereof, respectfully submit for your consideration and action the following: 

While we are fully convinced of the supreme authority of the General Society in such matters, 
and cannot and do not admit the right of anv State Society, which has once had an existence, and 
has since disbanded, and distributed the fund which was the main basis of their original organi- 
zation, to resume its original status, yet we feel, and so report, after a review of the question 
presented, that it may be expedient and proper for the General Society to receive and consider any 
such application which may be made, provided that the same is made to the Society after a 
temporary organization has been effected by those applying ; and after satisfactory evidence has 
been presented, that the amount of the fund existing at the time of the disbandment of the Society 
has been fully made up (with simple interest from the date of such disbandment), a list being 
furnished of the descendants of original members now residing in the States who desire to revive 
the organization ; and a full statement of the facts which induced such disbandment, and the dis- 
position made of such funds by the members having the control of them at that time. 

Henry K. Thatcher, Chairman of Committee. 

The Committee, having been attended by the Delegates accredited to the 
General Society by the Rhode Island Society, claimed by them to be in exist- 
ence, and having examined the books and papers produced by them, and other 
evidence accessible to the Committee, and bearing upon the subject; to so much 
of the resolution under which they were appointed as directs them "to inquire 
into the circumstances attending the dissolution (if any Society; the distribution 



60 I HI SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

i A i he funds, and that the papers and credentials in regard to any such application 
be referred to the same Committee," further 

Report, that the Rhode Island Society was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the 
Slate of Rhode Island, Dec. 2S, 1814, for the purpose of insuring the due application of its funds 
to the charitable uses contemplated by the " Institution : " that said Charter of Incorporation was 
surrendered by resolution of the Society, July 4. (832, but which surrender was revoked, and the 
1 Iriginal Charier revived, March 26, 1878. As these Legislative Acts were thought to be foreign 
to the application of the Delegates for seals in the General Meeting of the General Society, as 
representatives of the Rhode Island Society, your Committee did not advert to them, except as 
incidental to the history of the case, but proceeded to consider the facts bearing, under the 
" Institution" of the Society, upon the creation and continuance, the funds and their distribution, 
the dissolution and revival of the Cincinnati Society of the State of Rhode Island, and the claim 
,.f those applying to be admitted as Delegates to represent it in the General Meeting of the 
Genera] Society of 1878. 

The Committee accordingly report: 

I. The Stale Society of the Cincinnati in Rhode Island, was originally organized in the year 
[783, in accordance with the Institution of the Society. The original list of its members exists 
unimpaired, in the possession of its alleged successor. 

II. By virtue of its original list, the Society continued under the Institution from its found- 
1! mi in [783 without intermission to the \ ear 1S32. 

III. The book of the original minutes of the Societ) shows that a Com mi I lee was raised July 
I. i-sii, to draft a code of By-Laws. It was continued July 4, 1702. but no minute has been 
found of the report of the Committee, or of the adoption of the By-Laws, each occasion, as it 
arose, appearing to have been governed by especial direction. 

IV. It appears from the minutes that, by a vote, July 5, 1 7S4, it was resolved that not a less 
number than thirteen should constitute a meeting of the Society; which rule does not appear to 
havi been changed. A subsequent vote of the Society, October 0. 1786, empowered the standing 
Committee to transact the business of the Society ; and July 5, I/QO, the standing Committee was 
ordered to consist of si\ members, afterwards increased to ten ; at both of which numbers, tour 
was \ou-d to be a quorum of the Committee. 

V. The minutes record the meetings of the Society, regularly, from its foundation in 17s; to 
1 s ; i inclusive. It is recorded that fifteen members (a quorum) were present at the meeting on 
the 4th of July of that year. It further appears that the Treasurer's account was read and accepted 
on that occasion, and that Thomas Coles, the Treasurer, and Thomas P. Ives, were appointed a 
Committee to invest thi surplus funds in bank stock. 

[ulj 41 h, [832, the minutes show a stated meeting at which there were present eight members 
I nui a quorum) and one honorary member. The Treasurer's account was then read and accepted, 
but it serin- nol to have been recovered. The following Resolutions are recorded as having 
passed at this meeting, viz.: 

, That the Charier of Incorporation of this S iciety be surrendered to the Legislature 
of this State, the Societ) be dissolved, and the funds be divided and distributed to the surviving 
1 1 members, and to the legal heirs or representatives of those who have deceased, in pro- 
portion to their several original deposits, deducting from their respective proportions any advances 
which may have been made bj way of loans or otherwise. 

Resolved That the President. Treasurer, and John S. Dexter, be a Committee to carry the 
ing resolution into effect, and that on their completion of this business, notice thereof be 
given to all concerned. 

Voted: That said Committee be empowered to sell from time to time, such and so many 
shares of the bank stock belonging to the Company {sic) as the occasion may require for the com- 
plete and entire distribution of the funds. 

Ephraim Bowen was then the President, and 'Thomas Coles the Treasurer of the Society. 

A bill against the Society (designated) was then voted to be paid, and that the standing Com- 
mittee and the officers of the Society be continued. 



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Subsequently there appear from the minutes to have been ni the Society, and of the 

standing Committee, at which business was transacted as follows : 

A meeting of the Standing Committee, August 29th, 1S32, at which six members (a quorum I 
were present, when it was voted that the resignation of Thomas Coles, as Treasurer of the So 
be received; that his last account, received that day, be read and audited, and that the thanks of 
the Society be tendered to him. Col. John S. Dexter was then made Treasurer, anil succe ol 

Thomas Coles, and Thomas C. Hopper was empowered to receive the books, papers, and property 
of the Society, and to deliver the same to Col. John S. Dexter, taking from him a receipt for the 
same. It was further voted that Henry Ward be a member of the Society. 

A meeting of the Standing Committee, June 22d, 1833 (without note of the number pre 
to arrange for a dinner July 4th, 1833, for twenty-five or thirty persons. 

A meeting of the Society July 4th, 1S33, at which eight members (not a quorum) were pres- 
ent, when the standing Committee was continued, and when it was voted that the President (E. 
Bowen), Treasurer (John S. Dexter), and Thomas Coles be a Committee to carry into effect the 
vote of the last year for distributing the funds of the Society among its members. An adjourn- 
ment was then taken to the next year. 

A meeting of the standing Committee June 28, 1-54. at which five members (not a quorum) 
were present to arrange for a dinner, July 4th, ensuing. 

A meeting of the Society, July 4th, I S34, at which five members (not a quorum) were pres- 
ent, the record of which states only that " the Society dined at the Franklin House." No meet- 
ing is recorded of the Standing Committee in 1-35. 

A meeting of the Society in Providence, July 4th, 1S35, at which five members (not a quorum) 
were present, when the existing officers were re-elected for the ensuing year, and when a statement 
by John S. Dexter, the Treasurer, of his accounts to that date was received and placed on file. 
An adjournment was then had to the same place, July 4th, 1S36. 

There is no minute of any subsequent meeting, either of the Society or of the Standing Com- 
mittee. 

VI. At the Triennial meeting of the General Society in Boston, May 29, 1872, the following 
preamble and resolutions were, on motion of Admiral Thatcher, adopted and referred to a Com- 
mittee of one from each State : 

Whereas, in consequence of inquiries from descendants of Revolutionary officers, residing 
in Rhode Island and Connecticut, transmitted through Admiral Thatcher of Massachusetts and 
Mr. Greaton of New York, as to whether the re-organization of defunct State Societies required 
the permission of the General Society: 

Resolved, That it be referred to a Committee, to consist of a member from each State Society, 
to inquire and report on the expediency and propriety of permitting (and upon what terms and 
conditions) the re-organization of any State Society now dissolved, which might apply to the ( lene- 
ral Society for permission to re-organize. 

The Chairman named as the Committee on this Resolution, Admiral H. K. Thatcher, Massa- 
chusetts, Mr. John W. Greaton, New York, Mr. Wm. B. Dayton, Xew Jersey, Com. A. II. 
Kiltv, Maryland, Mr. James I., Ilarmar, Pennsylvania, and Mr. James Simons, Jr., South 
Carolina. Mr. Dayton of this Committee read the following report, which was agreed to and 
ordered to be entered on the minutes : 

To the General Society of the Cincinnati: 

Your Committee, to whom was referred the resolution offered on Wednesday, May 29, by 
Admiral Thatcher, at the request of parties in the States of Rhode Island and Connecticut, look- 
ing to, and soliciting permission to resuscitate the Societies of the Cincinnati in those respective 
States, and after such re-organization to be admitted to full representation in the General Society, 
lully report that they have given the subject mature and careful discussion and deliberation, 
and as the result thereof, respectfully submit for your consideration and action the following: 

While we are fully convinced of the supreme authority of th< ociety it) such matters 

and cannot and do not admit the right of any State Society, which has once had an existent 
has since disbanded and distributed the fund which was the main basis of their original organiza- 
tion, to resume its original status, yet, we feel, and so report, after a review of the question [ire- 



62 1 II! SO( 11 1 V OF 1 HF I JNCINNATI. 

sented, that it may be expedient and propel for the General Society to receive and consider any 
such application which maj be made, provided that the same is made to the Society, after .i tem- 
organization has been effected by those applying, and after satisfactory evidence has been 
presented, that the amount of the fund existing at the time of the disbandment of the S 
has been full) made up (with simple int< rest from the date of such disbandment), a list being fur- 
nished of the descendants of original members now residing in the States, who desire to revive 
the organization, and a full statement of the facts which induced such disbandment and the dis- 
mai i i such funds by the members having the control of them at that time. 

llr\K\ K. Thatcher, Ch <iittee. 

VII. It having become known that an attempt was making before the Legislature of Rhode 
Island, to divert the fund of the Rhode Island Society, which remained in the custody of the 
m of the Society, from its proper purposes, nine of the eldest lineal descendants of 
original members of the Society organized and successful!) opposed it In procuring, March 26, 
1S7S, from sa I gislature, an Act recognizing the acl of incorporation of the Society, December 
."-. 1M4, and procured it to be so amended as to make them, and one other with them, the suc- 
cessors ol the original incorporators, and so as to empower them to hold for the benefit of the 
Rhode Island Society, the fund remaining and belonging to it. 

\ III. On the notice of the aforesaid lineal descendants, twelve of the eldest lineal descend- 
ants of the original members of the Rbuxle Island Society, a list of whom is hereunto appended, 
assembled. December 12, 1S77. in the State of Rhode Island, and organized themselves, by elect- 
ing .1 President and the other officers named by the Institution for the State Societies, and having 
appointed live delegates to represent the so organized State Society, at the Triennial Meeting of 
S et) in 1S7S, did thereupon adjourn to meet within said State, July 4. 1S7S, and 
thenceforward have continued their meetings, and transacted their business periodically. 

1\. Subsequently, the officers of the Societ) so elected took possession of. and hold the 
premiss of various members of the Society to the amount, as stated, ol $1,50 

s loaned previous to the aforesaid resolution of dissolution of July 4. is;,;: and. applied for 
and received about $('40 of principal and accumulated interest on 4 shares of the Union Bank, 
standing in the name and to the credit of the Rhode Island Society, on the hooks of the bank, and 
remaining unsold and untratisferred. 

\ Funds. The original minutes of the Society, while noting the presentation and. accept- 
ance of the Treasurer's accounts, do not anywhere furnish a record of them, either in detail or 
sunvmarv. From the entries, however, under dates of July 4, 1S31, 1S32, and 1S33 respectively. 
where a committee was. in 1S31, authorized to invest the surplus funds; another, in is."--', to 
and distribute them among the members, and another, in 1S33 irn into effect the 

distribution of the previous year, an inference is warranted that the Society was not 
destitute of means. But what their amount, how invested, and what their ultimate disposition, 
can be but approximate • ned. It should be observed, however, that this difficulty is 

probably the result of a practice of destroying the papers in his • own to have been 

habitual to Col. John S. Dexter, the last Treasurer 1 S oiric evidem 

to the Committee, proves the destruction by himself, during his residence at Cumberland, - - 
and onward, and by his _ tghter, Mrs. Snow, under his - quently '."■ tS73, 

whatever papers of the R S . iety were under his c. 

That such papers had been delivered to him. may be presumed in the absence of proof to 

that Thomas C Hoppin, who was .. by the standing 

Committee, A gi si 29, is.;;, with their delivery to him. discharged th . V ertheless, 

died statements ha - - I the Committee : ically reliablf 

elusion. 

The first of these is indorsed, "last nes Rhode Island Society of Cincinnati." 

It was ... Mrs Cranston, on search among the papers, in her hands 

The handwrii g is 5. Coles ighout. It contains the names of the officers, mem- 

ginal members, probably), of th. - - - the Cincinnati, and the 

sums $75 to $2 Then follow informally these det 

memorandums: 



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Whole Capital deposited, $2,567 3 ( ' 

Stock, viz.: 

59 shares Exchange Bank, 2,95° °° 

12 shares Manufacturers' Bank, 600 00 

34 shares Union Bank, 850 00 

$4,400 00 
The effect of this statement will be hereafter considered. 
The second statement is in the words and figures following, viz. : 

" July 4, 1832. 

•■ 1, a statement of expenses from July 4, 1832, to August 8, being small expenses, $- j 
and cash on hand, $577.28. Cash on hand July 4, 1 - 30. Amount deposited in Black- 

stone Canal Bank. 

•unt examined and found correct. 

"Thomas C. Hoppin, Auditor. 
" Signed, Til' 

This statement, though primarily referred to July 4, 1832, is not the report appearing by 
the minutes to have been read and accepted by the Society, at its meeting on that day; for it pur- 
ports to be an account of small expenditures, in the interval between that date and Aug 
ensuing. Vet, its intrinsic evidence is to the effect that the cash on hand ($577-28) 8th of August, 
1832, was the balance of the cash on hand 4th of July previous, after deducting therefrom the 
small expenses ($^4,091 of the interval time. Evidently, this account is identical with the one 
voted to be received and audited, as the last account received that day from the Treasurer (Thos. 
Coles) by the standing Committee, Aug. 29, 1832. The amount of cash on hand August 29, 
1832, is therefore supposed to have been $577.28. 

Next is the statement of February 12-19, 1881, third in order of consideration, of J. C. 
Johnson, Cashier of the Union Bank, of the sums standing on the books of the Bank, at the dates 
specified, to the credit of the Rhode Island Society. 

" August 29, 1832, there were 66 shares of Union Bank stock in the name of the Rhode 
Island Cincinnati, and $239.37 to its credit on the ledger. This latter amount appears to have 
been from dividends on the stock. August 31, 1832, this sum ($239.37) was withdrawn, and in 
1133 and 1834 further credits from dividends of $106.75 and $108 were also drawn. 

" From September 22d to July 22d, 1834, there were transferred at different time?, 42 shares 
of the stock, leaving July 4, 1835, twenty-four (24) shares as ... . John S. Dexter re;. 
T he stock transfers are all signed John S. Dexter, Treasurer. We are unable to say who signed 
the checks for the withdrawal of the deposits, as they are probably among the ashes of the past. 
The par value of the stock i- - 

" Of the 24 shares Union Bank stock, reported as being in the name of the Rhode Island 
Society Cincinnati, July 24, 1835, twenty of them were transferred during the interval between 
October 7, 1835, and February 5, 1839, both dates inclusive; and all dividends up to and including 
July, 1847, were receipted for and taken. The re-organized Society of the present time came into 
and assumed possession of the remaining four shares, and have received the dividends made since, 
and including January, 1848, to the present time. All transfers were signed by John S. Dexter, 
Treasurer." 

The £239.37, dividends on stock, which the Cashier states to have stood to the credit of the 
Rhode Island Society, on the books of the Union Bank, August 29, 1832. could have been no 
part of the $577. 28 cash on hand, reported by the Treasurer, Thos. Coles, to have been on that 
day deposited in the Blackstone Canal Bank ; forthe £239.37 were not withdrawn from the Union 
Bank till August, 31st, or two days afterwards, the £577.28 having, two days before that, been 
reported as a balance of moneys in the Treasury to the credit of the Society so far back as the 
4th of July previous. Then, it is apparent that on the day (August 29, 1832), when the Trea- 
surer, Thos. Coles, reported £577.28 deposited in the Blackstone Canal Bank to the credit of the 
Society, there was also to its credit on the books of the Union Bank the further sum of £239,37, 
so that its cash on hand July 4, J832, may be reasonably supposed to have been the sum total of 
these credits on the books of both banks, or £816.65. Additional credits to the Society also 
appear on the books of the bank in 1833 and 1134 of £106.75 and £108. Other sums, it seems, 



64 Mil SOCIETY OF 1111 CINCINNATI. 

were drawn at intervals to July 31, 1S47, the amount of which is not known. As all these weie 
dividends of stock, accruing sul sequently to the resolution of July 4, 1S32, to dissolve, they are 
not included in the cash on hand at that date ; but will find expression in the interest of the prin- 
cipal fund, should its retrieval be prescribed as a condition precedent to the revival of the Smiili 
The discrepancy between the amount of 66 shares of Hank stock, at $55 per share, $3,630 
credited by the L'nion Bank to the Society, August 29, 1S32, and between the cash, $816.65, 
shown !,. have been on hand July 4, 1832. and the ¥4.400 of stock, and the $2,567.36 cash on 
hand, named in the statement of Thos. Coles, hereinbefore given, being a discrepancy in s;oek of 
¥770. and in cash on hand 1 I $1,750.71, is not assumed as chargeable against the Society. 
Neither date nor any circumstance with which the statement can be connected, demands its refer- 
ence to any particular time. It seems to have been an unofficial memorandum, of a miscellaneous 
and general character, made by Thos. Coles for his private use, while he was Treasurer of the 
Society, at some period of his incumbency from 1S25 to 1832. It is not in the form of an account 
— purports to be a list of the names of the members of the Rhode Island Society, and roughly 
estimates its fund. 

It being impossible to reconcile it with the Treasurer's reports of 1S32 and I S35, which 
survive, either as to amount of cash on hand or of bank stock, or as to the banks in which the 
funds of the Society were deposited, it is reasonable to suppose that the statement refer- to a 
period so long anterior to the year 1832, that no safe conclusion can rest upon it of the amount 
and condition of the funds of the Society in the latter year. For these reasons it is rejected as a 

I accountability. I'pon the opposite assumption, however, that its full amounts should be 
accounted for, there are considerations which, it is submitted, require that the Society should not 
be subjected to injury therefrom. As has been said, the statement can be predicated of no specific 
date. It is more pertinent to 1S25, the : ; rst year of Thos. Coles's term, than to 1S32, the last : 
and if cash on hand was, as is probable, reduced legitimately from §2,567.36 to $577.88, in his 
official life, the inquiry is pertinent whether the $4,400 of Hank stock in 1^25, may not also have- 
been in like manner reduced to $3,630 in 1S32. The book of original minutes discloses that the 
demands upon the Society foi assistance must have been frequent and large. The inference is 
warranted that considerable expense must have been incurred in the burial of the dead ; a 
importunate appear to have been its living members for relief, that loans wire made to them upon 

:rit\ of their promissory notes. There is an account of some of these left in Thos. t 
handwriting. There is evidence that there were others. Thev appear to have been in small and 

sums, from $40 to #5CO, and of various dates, from 1S01 to 1S27, and probably later. 
I hough these levins were irregular and injudicious, and must have impaired the integrity of the 
fund, guaranteed by the Institution as permanent, yet, the apparent urgency of the necessity which 
caused the violation, may be invoked to relieve it. These loans are claimed to have aggreg 
some J1.500, and may have been more. Fe>r these reasons it is surmised that the Bank stock sold, 
and the cash expended, previous to the resolution of Julv 4, 1832, which ordered the then existing 
fund to be divided and distributed, were absorbed by loans to relieve the personal necessities of the 
members of the Society. Improvident as it was, the evidence is not thought sufficient to charge 
any wilful violation of the Trust fund, upon the Society to 29th August, 1832, 

The minutes of no meeting, either ol - ety or of the Standing Committee, after that 

date, reter to the Treasurer's accounts or to fiscal affairs, till the meeting of the Society, July 4, 
is;;, when they record that " a statement of the Treasurer's accounts up to that day was read and 
placed on file." Opposite to this entry we come to the statement fourth, named as containing a 
report of the finances of the Society. It is indorsi I John S. Dexter, the Treasurer's, 

handwriting. " Statement of the concerns of the Rhode Island Society of Cincinnati. July 2d, 
1835." The caption of the interior is in the same words, the date there being July 4, 1S35. The 
whole is written by the Treasurer, and is as follows 

" Remaining funds of the Society, viz.: 

" 24 shares of stock in the Uni( in Bank, m #55 per share Si, 320 00 

" Cash, Blaekstone Canal Bank 105 

Cash in my hands 32 20 

" Dividend on Union Bank stock. 42 00 

und of the Society $1,499 88 

" John S. Dexter, . 



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"That this account was not destroyed with other papers of the Society in the Treasurer's 
hands, is accounted for by the fact that it seems to have been a paper which he did not retain. 
His original letter to Colonel Ephraim Bowen, President of the Society, dated Cumberland, July 
4, 1S35, expresses " bodily indisposition and mental depression " as the reason of his inability to 
attend the meeting of the 4th. He therefore encloses to him the statement of his account as 
Treasurer. It is doubtless the statement referred to by the minutes, as having been received and 
placed on file, July 4, 1S35. It is the last official account that survives of the fiscal affairs of the 
Society. Its caption, " remaining funds of the Society," literally corroborates the statement of J. 
C. Johnson, Cashier, that of the 66 shares of the Union Bank which its books prove to have 
belonged to the Society, August 29, 1S32, there remained 24, July 4, 1835, and it is affirmative, 
that of the cash proved to have been on hand to the credit of the Society, July 4, 1832, there 
remained $179.88 July 4th, 1835. 

Upon these proofs the conclusion is based that on the 29th day of August, 1832, the fund of 
the Rhode Island Society consisted of 66 shares of Union Bank stock, of the estimated value (at 
$55 P er share) of $3,630, and of $816.65 cash on hand, constituting a total, presumably referable 
to July 4th, 1832, of $4,446.65, for which the Society is accountable. What became of it will be 
inquired in another connection. 

The effect is now to be considered, of these several facts, upon the status of the Rhode 
Island Society. And first, the question occurs, whether the Society was thereby dissolved? Th- 
resolution of July 4th, 1S32, was plainly to this effect. It was not, however, the resolution of a 
quorum authorized to transact business. Even had a quorum been present, it is questionable 
whether it would have been operative against the practical protest of a minority continuing the 
functions of the Society. But the resolution coupled with the decision to dissolve, a direction to 
distribute the funds of the Society among its members. It mav be doubted whether such supple- 
mental determination, unexecuted, would constitute, if opposed by a minority, a dissolution of the 
Society; but it cannot be doubted that a resolution to dissolve and distribute, whether adopted in 
the presence of a quorum or not, when followed by distribution and acquiescence for a long term 
of years, would be an act of unquestionable dissolution. 

Noquorumever assembled after July 4th, 1831. Eight members met July 4th, 1832, to dissolve 
the Society and divide the fund, and eight, July 4th, 1S33, purposely to enforce the previous 
year's vote of distribution. The Standing Committee struggled to June 28, 1S34, and five mem- 
bers of the Society having met in Providence, July 4th, 1S35, and placed on file the Treasurer's 
last report, adjourned to the next 4th of July at the same place. 

Thenceforward the Society was at rest during forty-two years. Once only were its affairs 
heard from. It was at a Triennial Meeting of the General Society, May 18th, 1872, when an 
inquiry was made by descendants of Revolutionary officers residing in Rhode Island and Connec- 
ticut, whether the reorganization of defunct Societies required the permission of the General 
Society. It is, therefore, concluded that the Rhode Island Society was dissolved, for the reasons, 
both that it was generally considered as dissolved, and that it was admitted to be so, by those 
most nearly interested in its fate. Another view strengthens this conclusion. As has been stated, 
an Act was procured in 1S78, from the Rhode Island Legislature, reviving the Charter of 1814. 
If, therefore, the surrender of the Charter of Incorporation, by the resolution of 1832, required, 
as was thought, legislative re-enactment to revive the Charter, the same resolution must be thought 
to have been equally efficient to dissolve the Societv. 

It is not believed to be difficult to identify the time of its dissolution, with that of the reso- 
lution to dissolve. At no meeting thereafter, either of the Standing Committee or of the Societ) . 
does any business appear to have been entertained or transacted that did not appertain to the sale 
and distribution of it- funds. It is true that the meeting of the Standing Committee, August 29, 
1832, voted Henry Ward a member of the Society. With this inconsiderable exception, its busi- 
ness was confined to the reconstruction and repair of the machinery designed by the resolution for 
completing the distribution, which the resignation of one Treasurer (Thomas Cole), and the 
appointment of another (John S. Dexter), had deranged. 

It- only two subsequent meetings of June 22, 1833, and June 28, 1834, were for ordering the 
annual dinners for the ensuing Fourths of July. The meeting of the Society, July 4th 
next after that which adopted the resolution to dissolve, affirmed it. b) voting .1 rearrangement of 
the Committee to carry it into effect. On the 4thof July cf the next year it dined at the I'ranklin 



66 THF SOCIETY nl I HI- CINCINN 

House, and at its List meeting, July 4th. 1S35, it accepted and approved the report of the Treas- 
urer (John S. Dexter), submitted by the President (Ephraim Bowen), and agreed to by Thomas 
Coles, of the amount of cash remaining on hand; and the number of shares of Bank stock remaining 
after the sale and distribution of the balance of the cash and Bank stock belonging to the S 

Its business, therefore, transacted subsequent to its resolution to dissolve, having refer- 
ence only to the enforcement of the resolution, the dr.te of its dissolution is, consequently, estab- 
lished at July 4th, 1S32 

W hether, having been dissolved, there is a power to revive it is a question which was 
swered by the Genera) Society at its Triennial Meeting in 1S72, in these w 

While the General Society "does not admit the rigAt of any State Society which has once 
had an existence, and has -landed and distributed the funds which was the main bas - 

their orig lal organ ation to resume its original status," y - rts its power to authorize, and 

entertaining proposal to that effect whenever made, provided that it 
be attended with certain s. These precedent conditions are: that a list shall be furnished 

of the des - iginal members, g in the States, who desire to revivethe organi- 

zation : a previous temp not' the applicants; satisfactory evidence that the fund 

of the Society, when disbanded, has been replaced, with simple interest from the date of such dis- 
bandment ; the reasons of the disbandment, and the disposition made of the funds by those having 
: them. Some of these conditions may be said, in the main, to have been observed 
in the present instance. With two of them, however, there dots not appear to have been com- 
pliance. The requirement of a previous g ation of the applicants, is. in truth, but 
f the General Society's absolute denial of " the right of any State Society 
which once had .. - . has since disbanded and distributed its fund, to resume its 
ginal status." g on of the applicants, coupled with an 
■ on of their right, would not only supersede the necessity of permission to organize, but 
break that ci : membership evidently contemplated by the Institution, as the sole deposi- 
tory of the power creati unders selecting their eldest male posterity, who should be 
bear the Society forward in constant forever. Vet twelve of the 
eldest lineal descendants of the original members of the Rhode Island Society, unhabilitated mem- 

ssembled in the State of Rhode Island. December 12, 1877, 
and did then and there \ their unassisted right, into the Society of the Cin- 

cinnati in the S ind. 

Thenceforth, to the present time, has the organization so effected, assumed the 1 g 
and ex. 5 : the defuu. S reyed to them 

-veer to their own appli( arse. It was five years before that in 

response to the inquiry of the Revolutionary Officers, residing in Connecticut and 

Rhode Island, the General Society had instructed them of their privileges and the manner of 
obtaining them. These instructions, as hereinbefore stated, were explicit — so explicit indeed. 

I to be paramount, must have supplanted 
them with measun to be more capable of the emergency. The em. g - seen to 

have been the attempt I g by the au'. R Island Legis- 

lature, whatever remained of the funds of the Socit in the hands of the incorpor- 

- . - - - . if principal and accumulated interest, on four 

of the Bank share- g g - were recovered and secured. 

The esteemed and honorable character of the actors: their derivative title to represent within 

icinnari, th, worth and virtue of its original members : their persistent efforts to 

and their efficient zeal to aggrandi Sociel f their native State, may be accepted 

in palliation of their error, and entitle them, in their claim to have revived the Rhode Island 

. . to be heard now upon the question of th. ince with the only remaining . 

..nee has been prescribed by the I S necess 

the fact. This condition, in the language of the General Society, is 
" that satisfactory evidence has been presented that the amount of the fund existing at the time 
of the disbandmen - has been fully made up with simple interest from the 

indment." 

As we have seen, the funds of which the Societ\ was possessed, and for which it is account- 
able, amour: to $ . . . $3 consisted of sixty-six shares of stock in the Cnion 



I HI SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 67 

Bank, e< $55 per share, and §816.65 of cash in hand and on deposit. Of the sixty-six shares of 
Bank Stock, four shares, as hereinbefore stated, having been accounted for, reduces the deficit to 
sixty-two shares, of the estimated value (<" $55 per share) of $3,410. 

There is no direct evidence that the cash deposited and on hand was distributed among the 
members. It is true that the resolution of 1832 directed its distribution, and it is probable that 
it followed that direction. It is also possible that it may have been retained by the Treasurer, 
or have been used by him in defraying expenses official or personal. In neither case should the 
Society be held accountable (especially when question is made of its dissolution), for the possible 
remissness of its officer; and either case may be charitably supposed, where no proof positively 
forbids. 

The bank shares, however, fall to another category. Tin books of the bank show that 
sixty-two of the sixty-six shares were sold by the Treasurer, Col. John S. Dexter, from the 
year 1832 to 1838 inclusive. When the resolution to distribute was passed July 4th, 1832, 
Col. Ephraim Bowen was President, and Thomas Coles was Treasurer. The second of the 
resolutions of that date empowered the President, Treasurer, and John S. Dexter, to carry 
the preceding resolution of distribution into effect; and the third empowered the Committee 
"to sell, from time to time, such and so many shares of the Bank Stock of the Society as 
might be required to complete the entire distribution of the funds of the Society." August 
29, 1832, Thomas Coles resigned, and a vote of the Standing Committee, thereunto duly author- 
ized, made Col. John S. Dexter Treasurer in his place. Thereupon the Society, at its meeting, 
July 4th, 1833, re-organized the Committee, with the President, Treasurer, and Thomas Coles; 
a nominal change only, because of the previous resignation, August 29, 1832, of the Treasurership 
by Thomas Coles; and the simultaneous accession of Col. John S. Dexter to it. 

The Committee, in carrying into effect the resolutions of distribution, appear uniformly to 
have resorted to the official agency of the Treasurer, John S. Dexter. The proof is positive that, 
as Treasurer, he sold and transferred sixty-two of the Bank shares, and the sale of the sixty-two 
shares proves as unerringly that they were required to complete the distribution of the funds, as 
the omission to sell the remaining four shares proves that they were not required for the purpose. 
The obstacle to distributing the full sixty-six shares, doubtless, was the recalcitration of the mem- 
bers, to whom the four untransferred would have fallen under the resolution of distribution. 
Were further proof needed that distribution followed the sale of the Bank shares, it is to be found 
in Col. John S. Dexter, the Treasurer's, report, July 4th, 1S35. I laving in September, immediately 
after he became Treasurer, August 29, 1832, begun the transfer of the sixty-six shares, he had 
effected the disposal of forty-two of them, by September 22, 1S34. His report July 4th, 1835, 
charging himself with twenty-four shares, admits the transfer of forty-two, and his omission to 
charge himself with their avails, proves them to have been distributed. The remaining twenty- 
shares, transferred by him in 1837-1838, evidently followed in the wake of the preceding forty- 
two; and the tale of distribution, under the resolutions of 1832, was, as far as possible, complete. 

But it is claimed that the Treasurer acted without authority. If so, the Society should have 
repudiated his action; and yet, from 1832 to 1877, during forty-five years, there was acquiescence 
in it. It is objected that, as Treasurer, he was required to file a bond; and that having neglected 
to do so, his official acts were not obligatory on the Society, and void. The resolution of the 
Society on this subject is to be found in its book of original minutes, July 4, 1789, as follows: 

" Resolved, That the Treasurer shall give bond with two sureties, in a penalty (described), to 
the President and his successors in office, in trust for the Society, for the faithful discharge of his 
duty. He shall keep regular accounts, and submit them to the inspection of the Standing Com- 
mittee, whenever required." 

< llearly, the tenure o{ the Treasurer's office is not hereby encumbered with a condition. He 
is simply charged with a duty. As well might it be reasoned from the resolution, that the acts of 
the Treasurer would be void ab initio if he failed to keep regular accounts, and submit them when 
required to the inspection of the Standing Committee, as to reason that they would be void ab 
initio if he failed to file the required bond. These requirements belong to the same class. They 
equally are duties devolved upon the Treasurer, when in office, and not conditions precedent to 
qualify him for il. Besides, as appears from the minutes, Col. Dexter was treated by the standing 
Committee, and accepted by the Society, as Treasurer, in their official intercourse from August 
29th, 1832, the date of his election, to July 4th, 1835, as long as their meetings continued. The 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

minute under date of his election, that he " was then made Treasurer an Thomas 

is unqualified with a proviso; and that he was then considered by the Standing Committee 

:'n the office, is settled by their order of the same date, also entered in 

their minutes, that Thomas C Hopper deliver to the Treasurer, the books, papers, and property 

of the Society, and that the Treasurer give a receipt for the same. 

The vote of the Society, July 4th. I?.;;, which, because of the resignat. - .sand 

the concurrent election of John S. Dexter as Treasurer, retained upon the previous year's 

Sale - - button, the President and Treasurer, two of its members, and for the same 

-tituted for the name of John S. Dexter that of Tr - 

the identical members Ephraim Bowen. 
Thorn..- - id John S. Dexter, who originally composed it. was in effect. 

nilion of John S. Dexter- plenary title to the office of Treasurer. 

At tht last meeting the S ciety, July 4th, 1535, ::e adoption of the report of the Treasurer. 

John S. Dexter, by the rive members who were present, proves him have been in the 

litional possess establishes by the authority of the meeting which 

of the Society, the fact which he reported. 

- the 00 shares of Bank stock that belong* - . when 

three years August he became its Treasurer. This is not all: of the rive 

members - meeting. Ephraim Bowen. the Presi.ter.t. was on« - -eport of the 

g . as before mentioned, been transmitted to him from ( ... where the 

- - - have been presented to the meeting by 

him. if presented at all ; and that it was presented, appears from the entry in the minutes, that 

. J and placed on tile." 
A paper - irom the conceded familiarity of its author with the 

archives of the K h - - ..d by Asa Bird Gardner, L.L.D., before the Rhode Island 

— -ms us that not only was V'phraim B 

- Now Ephraim Bowen the Pres - Dexter 

the Treas : the Committee authorized by the - ly-jth. 

is the Third. 
The report then having been prepared and signed by the Treasurer, presented by the IV; - 
and adopted bv T - :' the Committee appear to have concurred in the fact apparent 

(2 shares of Bank s - - words 

r.d distribute 66 share> 
and st: -.:s remained - ;>e sold and distributed, 

and the rep file. 

The Society thus appears, by its las : the 

Committee's .... .: of the 

four u: - shares - . -;ems ever to have been raised against the sale and - - 

Thi - the Treasurer to distribute it, and 

next to be 
- 

The . - - S Society of the 

State S 
tt is - - but an 

integr... Sock - States 

creating and disposing of its funds. They 

Societies herein contributed, to the extent only 

to the relief of the unfortunate member - -.cinnati and their 

Begone d of the toO i by the blood of 

singular solerj rever. 

ties, and upon this I them; 

- the proprd g - Se ciety at la-_ - plain, there- 

art them from their appointe. It may 

not be that in a ( - ence the decree would be promp: act be 

reins 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 69 

Nor does it admit of doubt to what tribunal the delinquent is amenable. The trustei 
accountable to the author of the trust for its due administration and management. Having pro- 
vided funds and established their permanence, the " Institution," after restricting the proci 1 
of the State Societies to consistency with its provisions, finally subjects them to the revision and 
control of the General Society at its General Meeting. These are rights which inhere in, and arc- 
proper to the " Institution." The uniform practice of the Society has conformed to them. Its 
minutes disclose that at frequent General Meetings, a report from each State Society has been 
demanded and made, of the amount of its funds, the number of its beneficiaries, and the sums 
annually distributed among them. This is true of the Genera] Meetings in 1829, 1872, and [875; 
while in that of 1S7S, it was resolved that eai h State Society should make such a report at every 
General Meeting thereafter. 

Your Committee is not ignorant that it is advanced by those who claim to have revived the 
Rhode Island Society, that its enforcement of a by-law, which excludes from membership the 
descendant of any of those to whom the funds of the Society were distributed, until full restitution 
made of principal ami interest, is a sufficient expiation of the offence. It is answered that the 
offence was not committed against the Society, but by it; and further, that if exclusion from 
membership is judged by tin ci< ". i" be due to those whose ancestors partook of the 

distributed funds, it is worth considering whether it would be unjust that the General Societ] 
should exclude from affiliation the State Society under whose authority the distribution was made, 
until principal and interest of the funds distributed be restored. 

Finally, it may be said, that the principle involved and the restitution claimed are fully 
affirmed in the recovery and restitution by the applicants to their permanent fund, of the four 
shares of Union Bank stock, and accumulated interest. These four went with the sixty-two to 
make up the sixty-six shares of the Society in 1832, and were justly recovered from those who held 
them without authority or right. The distribution of the sixty-two shares was equally without 
authority or right ; and as the restoration of the four shares and their interest to the permanent 
fund was thought necessary and right to revive the Society, it is impossible that the restitution ..f 
the sixty-two shares and their interest, for the same purpose, should be thought to beunnc. 1 
and wrong. 

The Committee are satisfied that many, if not all, of the gentlemen who participated in the 
proceedings to resuscitate the Rhode Island Society, are inaccessible, either they or their a 
tors, to the reproach of having partaken in the distribution of the fund of the Society. 

JOHN COCHRANE, 

Chairman. 



List of the descendants of original member ol thi ' lini inn iti S iciety in the Slate of Rhode 
Island, who, December 12, 1878, organized themselves into a Society, claimed to be the reinsti- 
tution of the original Society : 

Joseph F. Arnold, Hon. James M. Clark, John Wanton Lyman, 

Sam'l C. Blodget, lion. Nath'l Green, Wm. Rensiter, 

Wm. Wallace Brown, Simon Henry Green, Dr. Henry E. Turner, 

Thos. V. Carr, I »r. David King. James M. Yarnum. 

On motion, the above reports were accepted and ordered to be entered on 
the minutes. 

Mr. Hamilton moved the adoption of the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantations, be received, and in due order of succession be 
restored to its legitimate functions under tin- Constitution of the Society, when- 
ever, within three years, the value of sixty -two shares of the Union Bank of 
Providence, Rhode Island, at fifty-five dollars per share, which it possessed when 
it dissolved, with simple interest thereon at — per cent., from July 4th, 1S32 



70 lHt SOCIETY OF l'Ht: CINCINNATI*. 

the date of its dissolution, to May 22b!, 1878, the date of its application to be 
received, be restored to its permanent fund. 

Resolved further. That said Society is not to be considered as received, nor 
delegates therefrom to the General Society as entitled to be received, until the 
performance of the above named condition, within the time ab ive named, duly 
certified to the satisfaction of the President-General. 

Mr. Lowndes moved to lay the resolution on the table. A vote by States 
being called for resulted as follows : 

Ayes. Xays. 

Massachusetts 5 votes. 

New York 5 votes. 

New Jersey 5 \.>tes. 

Pennsylvania 5 votes. 

Maryland 5 votes. 

South Carolina 5 votes. 

The President-General 1 vote. 

The Secretary-General 1 vote. 

The Treasurer-General 1 vote. 

The Assistant Secretary-General, . 1 vote. 



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So the Resolution was laid on the table.* 



Mr. Lowndes offered the following Resolution : 

Resoh'ed, That the Rhode Island Society be admitted to full membership as 
Cincinnati, that the delegates present be entitled to all the privileges and powers 
appertaining to such office. 

A vote bj States being called for, resulted as follows : 

Ayes. Xays. 

Massachusetts 5 votes. 

New York 5 votes. 

New Jersey 5 votes. 

Pennsylvania 5 votes. 

Maryland 5 votes. 

S iuth Carolina 5 vote^. 

The President-General 1 vote. 

The Secretary-General 1 vote. 

The Treasurer-General 1 vote. 

The Assistant Secretary-General, . 1 vote. 



The Resolution was thus adopted. 



* This is the tir^i instance in the history of the S being of discussion 

and debate being >n submitted to its consideration. 



THF. SOCIETY OF THF. CINCINNATI. 71 

The delegates appointed by the Rhode Island Society were 
Hon. NATHANAEL GREENE, Dr. DAVID KING, 

Prof. ASA BIRD GARDNER, LL.D., U. S. A., Dr. HENRY EDWARD TURNER, 
Hon. WILLIAM WARNER HOPPIN, 

And alternates 
:i DANIEL WANTON LYMAN, JAMES M." VARNUM, Esq., 

SAMUEL CHASE BLODGET, Esq., Hon. HORATIO ROGERS, 

HENRY THAYER DROWNE, Esq. 

There being present 
Hon. NATHANAEL GREENE, Prof. ASA BIRD GARDNER, 

Dr. HENRY E. TURNER, JAMES M. VARNUM, Esq. 

General Cochrane moved that that portion of his report which refers to the 
right of re-admission of State Societies in general (being based upon a Resolution 
on that subject, adopted at a meeting of the Society held at Boston in 1872), be 
reaffirmed as the sense of the Society. 

Rev. Dr. Beatty moved to lay the Resolution on the table, which was 
adopted, and the Resolution was thus laid on the table. 



I'HK SOCIF 1 V .'I HIV CINCINN \ I I. 



A PPE N D IX. 

I Set 

GENERA] lllAlirs LETTER RENOUNCING THE SOCIETY OF I'HF. 

CINCINNATI. 

Roxbi'ky, January iSth, 1793.* 
Dear Sik: When all Europe have their eyes fixed on France, and even - one who reveres 
the rights ol man is admiring the magnanimous conduct of the French, I was the other day most 
sensibh 1 reading the account of the conduct of General Dumourier, when he presented 

himself to the National Convention in the month of October last. This officer, whose military and 
literary talents place him in a most conspicuous light, and who cannot but possess the most refined 
sentiments of honor as well as exquisite f< _- or those marks iprobation which are con- 

ferred on distinguished merit, than which nothing can be dearer to a soldier. Yet, this great and 
celebrated Ci oral, in the pres t August V-- 

from Iv.s breast, and made an offering of it at the Shrine of Liberty, thereby indicating that he 
disdained to wear among a free and equal people any mark 

. which could be construed repugnant to liberty and equality. 

If '.':■ S g worn in France as an emblem of the distinguished merit of the 

wearer. ..\ this gTeat man as in rn in a Republic!;, how car. '. 

. allow my name to stand . 11 wear a 

d by many of our fellow citizens the indicati Unction 

in society. Animated by this recent example of the Gallic Ci ral, I do hereby request 

. name from the the Soci< Cincinnati, as 

1 do from this moment at the same time I pray you be 

, that affection, and esteem, tor even brother officer of the late American Army will con- 
tinue to possess a warm corner of my heart, too deeply impressed to be en.. stand in need 
of the aid ol ani institution, as remembrancers. 

While we are celebrating in high festivity the conduct lur French friends, let 

us. it not already practising, imitate such of their ex ippear to be evidently mar!,, 

propriel establish those principles which form the permanent genuine 

Republic!;. With sentimei eem, 

1 have the honor to be, 

Pear Sir, 

s 

W. HEATH. 
Hon'ble Henry Knox, Esquire, 
to the General S. 

* Vb, idem with that on which thi N 

lis XVI. 

- - 
Heath. ' 

within a few weeks ■ the h-tter he - . - 

with the in the camp 

g 
. at I'urville I'ark. 14th M„ 

»ut attachment to any cause — withCM - itrigues, 

"and thirty in exile, V 
w.,s ■ v red with his fri< oneofthero." 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 73 



COLONEL DU BOUCHET SHOWS THE APPRECIATION OF THE SOCIETY BY 
THE ALLIED OFFICERS, IN A REQUEST GRANTED MAY 17m. 1 7S4. 

(See ante, page 38.) 

Paris, february 17 1784 
D R General I have experienced so much your goodness to me that as long as 1 will 

live I will always rely upon your friendship and reccolect with the sense of the most lively 

gratitude all the many obligations I lay under, since the first day I had the happiness to be 

acquainted with you. 

I ardently entreat you to be favorable to my petition for being admitted amongst the 

defendors and settlers of American Libertys reunited in the Society of Cincinnatus. 

Since 1776 that I embarked for America until the year 177S, that on account of the badness 
of my health I returned to France, I have been with votir satisfaction of my services employed 
for the American cause, and as I have been nominated D A Gen of the French auxelliery 
Army in March 1780 and remained so until 1783. I have always been since 1776 an American 
officer or an auxilliery one, however I have not the honour to be a member of your Military 
Society. Please D r General, to protect my pretension on this important circumstance. I 
am the only Frenchman who was at both of the two glorious actions at Saratoga and Yorktown. 
Two thousand gueneas would not be so agreeable to me as this honorable reward of my services. 
I was ready to embark for America for soliciting it myself, Marquis de La fayette's advices hin- 
dered me to do it. I intend to go and thank you for this favour, if I am so happy as to obtain it. 
Please my Dear General, to speak in my favour at the Assembly of May, or you can not do it to 
write accordingly to my wishes, for having that favour granted to me. If you do it successfully 
you'll make me happy. 

General Conway is Major General, for my part I am L' Colonel, D. A. G' of the Army, ami 
Knight of St Louis. But without the order of the Cincinnatus there is no happiness for me. 
# * * * 

Believe me forever Your friend and devoted servant and admirer 

IT. CHEVALIER DU BOUCIIF.T 

a Auxerre. Bourgogne. 
The honorable G'al Gates 

favored by his Excv Gen. Washington. 



Enclosed to Washington and forwarded by Gordon, the Historian, with thisnote: " Brought from Gen, 
Washington 's house by William Gordon the day after tlte General received it '." Original in Dr. Thomas 
Addis Emmet 1 ! Collection of Historical Manuscripts. 



THK SOCIETY OF 11U CINCINNATI. 



O F F 1 C E R S 



GEN E RAL S O C 1 E T V 









i Soo. 
1S11. 

: 



[ Virginia. 

\i EX w.'Fs H N • York. 

Charles Cotksworth Pinckney, of 

Carolina. 
Thomas Pikckni South Carolina. 

Jersey. 



Presidents General. 

Morgan 1 bwis, of New \ 

William PoPHAM, of New York. 

VlEXANDER ScaMMEI DEARBORN, 

Massachusetts. 

New Vork. 



South 



1844. 

■ 



of 






Hor itio \ ginta. 

Thom vs Miffli: 

S 

CHARI - - C KSW PlN< KNI * , o( 

Una. 
Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, 
Mas 

'■ ■ 
....-., New ^ 



Vice-Presidents Generai 

William S n « Jersey. 



Horace Binnby, of Pennsylvania. 
Ne< York, 
s S ' Daveis, ol Massachusetts. 

J wiks Warren Sever, of Massachusetts, 
nth Carolina. 
\ [rvins, M. D , 

■ 



Secretaries General. 



17S3. H 

Wit HAM .1 v- ■ - 

v .. of Pennsylvania. 

1S57. Phomas McEi en, ol Pennsylvania. 






: Pennsylvania 
Asa 1 ; 






Otho H 

Soi 
Willi am 

N ■, 

u land. 

John Mask insylvania. 



\\V SECRE1 \ku> Gl - 



Thomas M< I insylvania. 

v, ol Pennsylvania 

M 

R . of Maryland (for- 

merlv of South Can 



\ New York 

ania, 

1 - U LUA! M< - 

:§ v is McLu Pennsi 



HERS GEN1 

John Mark nnsylvania, 

; New Jersey. 
.--- l.-N. H riLGHMAN, of Maryland. 

1S7S. Ai sx vnder H V 

- . ER, Of New Y v 



fREASURERS GENERAI . 



\ II :\ 

John Makki - ania. 

■ - N 

William - ania. 



1S5X. John H. Mark Pennsylvania. 

New Jersey. 
ISts. Willi ai 

N • Jersey. 








■n^i cu y^c 




Til !•: TRA N SACTION S 



New York State Society 



WITH ANNOTATIONS \:\ THE SECRETARY. 



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77 



OFFICERS 



N E W YORK STATE S O C I E T Y 



PRESIDENTS. 



ELECTED. 
1783. 

1786. 

1794- 
1795- 
1797- 
1S04. 



ELECTED. 
I783- 
I735- 
1786. 
1788. 

1793- 
1794- 
1795- 

I7M7- 
1804. 
1824. 



Alexander McDougali . 
Baron Steuben. 
George Clinton. 

William Stephens Smith. 

Nicholas Fish. 

William Stephens Smith. 



ELECTED. 

1S05. Nicholas Fish. 

1806. Richard Varick. 

1S32. Morgan Lewis. 

1S44. Wiliam Popham. 

184S. Anthony Lamb 

1855. Hamilton Fish. 



George Clinton. 
Baron Steuben. 
Philip Schuyler. 
Alexander Hamilton. 
James Watson. 
William Stephens Smith 
Nicholas Fish. 
Aquila ( ill ES. 
Ebenezer Ste\ EN i. 
Morgan Lewis. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

ELECTED. 

IS32. 
I833. 
I838, 
1842. 
1844. 
I848. 
1855. 
1857. 
IS62. 
1SS5. 



Nicholas Fish. 
John Trumbull. 
Abraham Leggett. 
William Popham. 
Anthony Lamb. 
Horatio Gates Stevens. 
Edward P. de M vrceli in. 
Richard Varick De Witt. 
William 3. Popham. 
Alexander Hamilton. 



SECRETARIES. 



1753. Benjamin Walker. 

1754. James Fairlie. 
1785. Robert Pemberton. 
1788. John Stagg, Jr. 

1790. William Stephens Smith. 

1791. William W. Morris. 
1 7m;. James M. Hughes. 

1794. Abraham Hardenburgh 

1795. Bernardis Swartwout. 
1800. John Stagg, Jr. 

1803. William Stephens Smith. 

1804. William Popham. 

1805. Josefii Hardy. 



EI ECTED. 

[810. Benjamin Ledyard. 

1813. Henry S. Dodge. 

1S16. Daniel E. Dunscomb. 

1826. Charles Graham. 

[838. Charles A. Clin ion. 

1843. Edward P. de Marcei 1 in. 

1S55. Alexander B. Thompson. 

1859 George W. I'.i 1 ecker. 

1S60. William S. Poph \m. 

[86z. Key. Marines Willett. 

1866. William Irving Graham. 

1S72. Key. Marinus Wii 11 1 1 . 

1879. J oh n Schuyli r. 



ELECTED. 

1783. Philip Van Corti vndi 

1788. Richard Platt. 

1791. Edward Dunscomb 

1793. Abijaii Hammond. 

1794. Theodosius Fowler. 

179!) 1 1 1 INARD I'.i 1 1 KER. 

is id. Jonathan Burrai i . 

1820. Theodosius Fowler. 



TREASURERS. 

B 1 ECTED. 

1S42. Anthony I imb. 
1844. 11 win roN Fish. 
[855. 
1873 

1874- 
[881. 

1883. 



Henry Hail W \i;d. 
John Tom;, i (acting). 
.\i 1 x inder Hamilton, fr. 
Willi \\i I [enry Crosby. 

Al I . . ,01 1: J Wll S I LINTON. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



ELECTED. 


1783 


Nichol is Fish. 


1785 


Richard Plait 


[788 


Edward Di nscomb 


1793 


Leonard Bleecker. 


1794 


Ill l;\ Mini - SW IRTWOI I 


1795 


Leon ird Bi t ei ki i; 


1796 


Joseph Hardy. 


1805 


James Fairlie. 


1807 


John Keese. 


1S09 


Jl IN \^ A] iDI IM i 



ASSISTANT 1 REASURERS. 

ELECTED. 



1828. Anthony Iamb. 

1842. William B. Crosby. 

1850. Theodosius Fowler. 
1S62. John Torrey. 

1873. John Wheelwright Greaton 

(acting). 

1574. Herbert Gray Torrey. 

1575. William Henry Crosby. 

1851. Edward William Tall. 



CHAPLAINS. 

ELEI III' ELEl. I KM. 

1S17. Rev.Lewis P. Balch, T).T> .(honorary).* i8s,>. Rev. Marinus Willett, D.D. 

[857 Rev. Mancius Smedes Hi rroN, D.D. [881. Rev. Mancius Holmes Hi i ton, D.D. 



PHYSICIANS. 



I- I E< I ED. 

1857 Alexander Clinton, M.D. 



ELEI I ED. 

1878. John F. Cray, M.D. 



* The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vermilye ofiit iated in the absence of Dr. Balch. 



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79 



ROLL OF MEMBERS 



NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY, 



AS RETURNED TO THE GENERAL SOCIETY IN MAY 1 784. 



Officers for 17S3 and 1784. 

Major-General Alexander McDougalj .President. 

His Excellency Major-General George Ci inton I 'ice-President, 

Colonel Philip Van Corti andi Treasurer, 

Lieut. -Colonel Benjamin Walker Secretary. 

Lieut .-Colonel Nicholas Fish Assistant Teasur 

Delegates to the General Meeting. 

Colonel Philip Van Cokti.andt, Lieut. -Colonel WiLLIAM S. Smith, 

Lieut.-Colonel Nichoi as Fish, Captain James Fairlie. 



New York Artillery (2d Regular). 



Colonel John Lamb {BHg.-Gen.) 
Lieut.-Colonel Ebenezer Stevens. 
Major Sebastian Beauman. 
Captain Andrew Moodie. 
" John Doughty. 
" Thomas Machin, 
" George Fleming. 
" Jacob Reed. 
Capt. -Lieutenant Ephraim Fenno. 

Cornei ius Swartwoui 
Isaac Hibbell. 
Jacob Kemper. 
Isaac Guion. 
Caleb Brewster. 
Peter Nestell. 



Lieutenant Michael Wetzfll. 
" John Shaw. 

" James Bradford. 

John Reed. 

Henry Cinningham, 

Isaac Smii h. 

Peter Anspach. 

Henry Demi er. 

George Leai C RAFT. 

William Leavcrakt. 

William Sir vchan. 

James Giles. 
" Jonas Addoms. 

Robert Burnet, Jr. 

William Walton Morris. 
" John Smith. 



2tl New York Regiment. 



Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt (Brig.-Gen.) 
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Cochran. 
Major Nicholas Fish {Lieut. -Col.) 
Captain Samuei T. Pell {Major), 

" John F. Hamtramck {Ma ■•■> | 

Jonathan Hallett {Major). 
" Israel Smith {Major). 
" Theodosits Fowler. 
" Henry Vanderburgh. 

Benjamin Walker {Lieut. -Cot.) 
Henry Pauling. 
" Jacob Wright. 
Lieutenant Samuel Dodge. 
James Fair! ie. 
Charles F. Weissenfbls, 
James John 



Lieutenant SaML'EL TalLMADGE. 
Daniel Denis i on, 
Christopher Hutton {Adjt*} 
Michael Connoli y {P. M.) 
Rudolph Van Hoevenbargn 
Ephraim Woodruff. 
" Joseph Frilick. 

Ensign BERNARDL'S Su 4RTWOUT. 
Nehemiah Carpenter. 
" Samuel Dodi i 

Barthoi omevv \' inderburgh. 
Dirck Schuyler. 
11 Wn 1 1 wi Pb vers. 
■ <n I > wii-i Menbma. 
.■>.■'.* Mate Abnes Prior. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



1st New V«>rk Regiment. 

Colonel Goose Van Schaick {Brig.-Gen.) Lieutenant John Fcrman. 

L leu t. -Colonel Cornelii s Van Dvck. " Abraham Hardenbergh. 

Major John Graham. " Henry Van Woeb r [O. M.) 

Captain Aaron Aorson {Major). '* Jacob H. Wendeli (Aaj't.) 

'*■ Henrv Tiebovt. " Benjamin Gilbert. 

Leonard Bleecker, " Josiah Baglev. 

" Jamfs Gregg. Ensign John Marsh. 

John C. Tenbroeck. " John Fondey. 

'• Charles Parsi " Garrett Lansing. 

" George Sytez. " Robert Wilson. 

Cornelius T. Jansen. " Benjamin Herring. 

Lieutenant Peter M \<.i i " Dm u T. Fondey, 

" JeremiahVan Re nsse i aer {P. M . \ Ad \m Tenbroec k. 

" Ephraim Snow. *' Joseph Morrell. 

Wii hei MOS RYCKM \n. Surgeon Caleb Sweet. 

Samuel Lewis. rgeon*s Mate — John Ellioi 



Officers Belonging to Differeni Corps 

Captain Daniel Niven, Engineers. 

Robert Pemberton, Spencer's <uh N. J. 
" Peter Vosbi roi gh, James Livingston's Regiment. 
" John Green, l T . s. Navy. 
/ ieuienant Dim an Campbell, t olonel Livingston's Regiment. 
D \mm McLane, Massachusetts Artillery. 
William Price, Massachusetts Artillery. 
John Si uce, Van Heer's Light Dragoons. 
Captain Lieutenant Andrew Englis, ist Massachusetts Regiment. 
Lieutenant Thomas Frederick J vckson, Sheldon's 2d Regular Light Dragoons. 
( aptain Petes Taulman, Sappers and Miners. 
Stephen Graham, Hospital Mate. 



Officers who have Resigned or been Deranged. 

Colonel Peter Gansevoort, 3d New York (Deranged). 

Lieut. -Colonel Frederick Weissenfei s, 4th New York ..(Deranged 1779. Served four years. 1 

Pierre Regnier De Rot ssy, 2d New York .... (Resigned 1780. Served five years.* 

Marin is Willett, 5th New York (Deranged. Served five years. 1 

Samuel Hay, Pennsylvania (Served five years.) 

John Conway, ist New Jersey (Resigned 1781. Served five years.) 

Major Benjamin Ledyard, ist New York (Resigned 1779. Served four years. > 

" Samuel Logan, 5th New York (Deranged.) 

Captain Henry Du Bois, 2d New York (Resigned 4th Nov., 1782. Served seven years.) 

" Charles Graham, 3d New York. (Deranged 1780. Served six years.) 

Elihu Marshall, 2d NewYork... (Deranged 1780, Served five years, t 

James Stewart (Deranged 1780. Served five years.) 

11 James Gilliland, Sappers and Miners (Resigned 9th Oct., 1782. Served six years.) 

11 Edward I >UNSCOMB, 41I1 New York (Deranged 31st Dec, 1780. Served four years ) 

Captain-Lieutenant Daniel Parker, Jr., 3d Massachusetts. (Resigned 1779. Served (our years.) 
" JoBN Waldron, 2d Regiment of Artillery (Resigned 1782. Served six years.) 

/ ieutenant George I. Denniston, }d New York (Deranged 1780. Served 4 years.) 

" William Tapp, 3d New York (Deranged 1780. Served four years.) 

Thomas Hint, 4th New York (Resigned 1779. Served four years.) 

William Belknap, 4th New York (Deranged 1779. Served five years.) 

Joseph Foot, ist Massachusetts .(Resigned 6th July, 1782. Served seven years.) 

Christopher Cod wise, 2d New York (Deranged 1780. Served six years. > 

Abraham Leggett, 5th New York (Served four years.) 

Francis Hanmor, 2d New York. 
" John Dutton Crimsheir, Paymaster Colonel Lamb's Artillery. 

Physician and Surgeon— Doctor Thomas Tillotson (Resigned 1780. Served four years.) 

Sui gvon John Francis Vacher, 41 h New York (1 deranged 1781. Served five years * 

<'■ \rre 11 V \n Wagbnen, Sth Pennsylvania, 



the society of the cincinnati. ol 

General and Si \m Officers and Officers Belonging to no Particular Corps. 

Major-General Alexander McDolgall. 
His Excellency George Clinton. 
Brigadier-General J AMES CLINTON. 
Colonel William Stephens Smith. 
Lieut. -Colonel Aquila Giles. 

" Richard Platt. 

Major and A id-de-Camp Ranald Slei-hen McDolgall. 
Lieut. -Colonel Richard VarICK, Deputy Muster-Master General. 
Major Matthew Clakkm-n. 

Honorable John Laurance, Judge Advocate-General of the ('. & I 
Vector John Cochran, Director of the Military Hospital, 

" Robert Johnston, Physician of the General Hospital. 
Colonel Simeon De Witt, Geographer to the A rmy. 
Reverend John Gano, Chaplain New York Brigade. 
Major-General Philip Schuyler. 
Colonel Alexander Hamilton. 

Philadelphia, June 12th, 1S79. — Copied from the original list now in 
possession of the Secretary General. 

John Schuyler, Secretary, N. Y. 






THE SOI II IV OF THF. CIN( INNATI. 



83 



R O L L OF ME M B E R S 



N E W Y O R K STATE S O C I E T Y , 

AS RETURNED TO l'HE GENERAL SOCIETY IN MAN, 17SS. 



The Honorable Major-General BaRON STEUBEN President* 

" " " Philip Schi vler Vice-President. 

" Brigadier-General Philip Cortlandt Treasurer. 

Major RICHARD FLAT! Assistant Treasurer. 

Ca/<taiu RoBBRI PeMBERTON Secretary. 

Hon. Major-General J ames ( i inton. Captain Charles Parson 

Lieut. -Colonel Nicholas Fish. Ensign Benjamin Herring. 

Captain SAMUEL T. Pell. Captain GEORGE SyTEZ. 

Major John F. Hamtramck. " Cornelius T. Jansen. 

Captain Jonathan Halli Lieutenant Abraham Hardenburgh. 

" Israel Smith. Ensign Douw T. Fondey. 

• l Theodosius Fowler. I Untenant & Q. M. Henry V 
" Henky Vanderburgh. ** & Adjt. Jacob H. Wendell. 

Henry Pauling. Ensign J. Morrell. 

Lieutenant Samuel Dodge. '* Adam Ten Bkoeck. 

Charles F. WeiSSENFELS. Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert. 

" James Johnson. Surgeon's Mate, John Eli ioi 

Ensign Bernardus Swartwoi r. Ensign Dirck Schuyler. 

Lieutenant Samuel Tai lmadgi Captain Leonard Bleei kei 

Daniei Denisto . Ensign Joseph Morrell. 

Ensign Nehemiah Carpenter. * Surgeon Caleb Sweet. 

I Untenant & Adjt. Christopher Hi iton. Ensign William Peters. 

" & Q.-M. WlLLlAM COLBRA i H. Brigadier-General John I 

Brigadier-General Goose Van Schaick. Lieutenant Michael Wetzell. 
Brigade~Ckaflain Rev. John Gano. '* John Shaw 

Regimental Surgeon Daniel Menem a. Captain Ephraim Fen no. 

Surgeon's Mate Abnek Prior. Lieutenant df Adjt, [amis Bradford. 
Lieutenant Michael Connolly. " John Rei d. 

Lieut. -Colonel Robert Coi h Major William North. 

Lieutenant RUDOLPH Van HOVENBARGH. Lieutenant HENRY CUNNINGHAM. 

" Ephraim Woodri ff. Lieut. -Colonel Ebenezrr Stevens. 

" Joseph Frilick. Captain Daniel Niven. 

Ensign SAMUEL DODGE. Major SEBASTIAN B.-\l man. 

" Barthi'I.emfw VaNDERBI Captain Peter TAULMAN. 

Captain Henry Dli BoiS. Lieutenant WlLLIAM Price. 

Jacob Wright. Captain John Doi ghty. 

Lieut. -Colonel Benjamin Walker. Lieutenant Isaac Smith. 

William Stephens Smith. Captain I homas M ii hin. 

Lieutenant Peter MagEI , Lieutenant \'\ 1 1 1 A . 1 

Major John Graham, Captain Isaac Gi 101 

Lieutenant fr P. M. Jeremiah V in Rbnsselaer. His Excellency Governor l 

Captain Aaron Aorson Captain Caleb Brewster. 

Ensign John Marsh. Captain George Fleming. 

Lieutenant Ephraim Snow. Lieutenant fosEPH Foot. 

I nsign John Fondey. Lieut. -Colonel Frederk k Wei i fel: 

Captain Henry Tieboi r. Lieutenant George l Den . ro: 

Lieutenant Wll mm Ml ■ RYCKMAN. " Will 1AM Tait 

1 ■■ Garret Lansing. ." Thomas Hunt. 

Captain James GREGG. » William Be] KNAP 

Ensign Roberi Wu Surgeon Joh ' \ mu-k. 

Captain John C. Ten BROECK. Major Benjamin LEDYARD. 

Lieutenant Sami ei Lewis. Captain Charles Graham. 
Lieut. -Colonel Cornbi 11 s V \n Dyck. " Elihi Marshai l. 

Lieutenant John Furman. " | ■ . , Jtkwari 



1 ■■ nri.,1 m, Dougall having died. 



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Captain Daniei Parker, Jr. 

James Gillu vnd 
Lieutenant Abraham Hvat] 

J WIL'S FAIRI II''. 

Judge-Advocate John Lauranc e, 
1 ieut.-C olonel Richard Varick. 
■ tiEON De Win 

( "aptain Andre h I . lij 

J u ob Reed. 
/ ieutenant George Leayi r u i 
11 William Le o t rai i 

WlLl 1AM Si RA< HAN. 

" Abraham Legge i i - 

Ji IHN S I \Ki- . 

" James Gii es. 
Captain-Lieutenant Peter Nestei i . 
I- ieutt n ant Ji si \n B m;ley. 

■'"' | ■ I CHRAN. 

Lieut. -Colonel John Conn* w 
Captain Edw vrd Di nscomb. 

. * I ■ ckBei kman. 
Lieutenant I'i nc w Campbei i 

James Miles Hi ghes, Esq, 

i.' w eb Swan. 
Lieut, -{ 'olonel Marin us Willett. 

Captain PETER VOS BOROUGH. 

Lieutenant Fran< is Hanmor. 

'.'..■ ■■ •■ S \\|| Ki Loi .1 

Lieut. -Colonel Aqi ii v Giles 

Colo*:,/ Pi rER GANSEVOORT. 

Major Matthew Clarkson. 
Lieutenant Jon n Si vgi .. Ir. 
( aptain-Lieutenant John Waldron. 
Surgeon Garrei I. Van Wagenen. 
Lieut.- Colonel Thomas Frederick Jai kson 

William Wai ton Morris. 

John Smith. 
Captain John Green, Navj 
Physician Thomas Tii lotso 
Captain John Bard. 



Hospital Mat* Stei hi s ( ■;■■. vham. 
( aptain SiL \.S i Ira\ . 
Lieutenant Tunis V \.\ Wagenen. 

" Nathaniei III 
Captain-Lieutenant Chari I Ni I 
( aptain \ \\n 5 < i,; , i 
Lieut, -t olom I K- ibeh i Tkoi p. 
Lieutenant Abijah Hammond. 
i ■ ■■■,■ .' \ n i H. ini Wai roN White. 
Lieutenant Ephraim Hunt. 
Do* tor Andre h Ck mgie 

EBENE ZER Cri iSBI 

Captain David Van Horni 
Lieut. -Colonel Alexander Hamii roN, 
Assistant Clothier David Brooks. 
ci?=£ I The Honorable Richard Mo 

-^ - ~ - 1111. 

K. R. 1 ivingston. 

J IMES 1 >l VNE. 

Wii liam Duer. 
John Si oss Hob \kt. 
■ Lieutenant John i^k-ier. 
£i>«*,-c"Wtf»f/BROCKHOLSi Livings! ■■ 

Captain J AMES WATSON. 

/ '■■■ tot i'h \ici es McKnight. 

h HSig « J I HOSH \ PH \ I S rARR. 

Lieutenant Nathaniei I enci of N Carolina 

Society. 
1 ■ ■ [sa \x. Ledi vrd. 
Lieut. -Colonel Henr\ B. Livingston. 
//*<■ Honorable Wn i i \m Floyd (.Honorary). 
Lieut. -Colonel James Gribr. of the Penn. Society. 
Lieutenant Andrew White. 
Captain James BREWSn i i 

Jonathan 1, \\\ R£N( e. 
Lieutenant Alexander Thompsqn. 

Captain DANIEL GANG. 

Colo ■■■■.' Mi irgan Lewis. 

Captain John Santford. 

Colonel Samuel B. Webb, of the Conn. Society. 



3 " :t , 

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Copy of the original signatures to the Institution. New York; 3d May, 17S8. 
Attest.- Robert Pemberton (Secretary). STEUBEN (President). 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 85 

HONORARY MEMBERS 

OF THE 

S C IETV OF THE CINCINN A T I 

ADMITTED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 



WHFN ELECTED. 

1784, July 6th. Rev. Stephen Gano. 
John Lansing. 
James M'Claugheky, Colon/ 1. 
Lewis Morris, Major-General, U. S. A. 
Thomas Moffatt, Major. 

J'lN vs I'l.ATl . Justice. 

Philii' Pell, Jr., Judge Advocat , I '. S. A. 

John Morin Scott, Brig.-General. 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, Lieul.-Governor oj X. Y. 

Dam ii Williams, Captain. 

Robert Yates, Chief Justice. 
1786, July 4th. Richard Morris, Chief Justice. 

Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor. 

James Duane. 

William Duer. 
•' John Sloss Hobart, Justice. 

Henry Livingston. 

Wii.i 1 am Floyd, Colonel. 

Stephen Van Rens 1 : vi 1; {the Patroon). 

John Hathorne, Colonel. 

Jacob Morton. 

William Constable. 

John Barker Church. 

Rev. William Linn. D.D. 

Thomas Truxton, Captain, U. s. X. 

GOUVERNEUR Morris. 

Rev. John Mitchell Mason, D.D. 

Stephen Decatur, Commodore, !_'. S. X. 

I \' ob Jones, Captain. U. S. N. 

William Bainbmdge, Commodore, ('. S. X. 

Oliver Hazzard Terry, Commodate, V. S. X. 

[ames Lawrence, Captain, ('. s. X. 
1815, " Thomas Macdonough, Commodore, I', .v. X 

Isaac Hull, Captain, If. S. X. 

Johnston Blakeley, Captain, l_'. s. X. 

Lewis Warrington, Captain, I'. S. X. 
181S, " fACOl Brown, Majoi General, I'. S. I. 

1819, " Andrew Jackson, President of I s. 

is?j, " Rufus King. 

i^-j;. " Baron d'Ai rier, Commander of the French Army. 

1827, " Edward Livingston, Chief Justice. 

1847, " Stephen W. Kearney, Major-Gmeral, U. S. A. 

Mai mii w C. Perry, Commodore, l . S. X. 



1787, 


Jul) 


4U1. 


1 791. 


Ju'.V 


4lh 


1796, 


Jul) 


4th 


1800, 


Jul) 


4 th. 




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[805; 






ISI3, 


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86 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

1S47, July 4th. /. M n\k\ IWihr, President of I'. S. 

William J. Worth Major-Genera I, U. S. A. 
1849, " William G. Belknap, Major-General, I . S. A. 

John E. Wool, Major-General, ('. S. ./. 

J \mi s lii 1 hanan, President 0/ I . S. 

John Alsop King, Governor of N. V. 

Robert Anderson, Brig. -General, I'. s.A. 
iS66, " Ulysses Simpson Grant, Lieul.-General, /'. S. A. 

David Glasgow Farragut, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. 
1. " William Tecumseh Sherman, General, U. S. 1. 

1881, " Winfield Scon HANCOCK, Major-General, U. N ' 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 87 



TRANSACTIONS 



NEW Y O R K STATE SOCIETY 



The first meeting of the New York State Society consisted 
of those officers of the two New York Regiments of Infantry, who were mem- 
bers of the Cincinnati, and was held in June, 1783, at the Cantonments, on the 
Hudson, near New Windsor, when the following was adopted : 

Resolved, That as the officers of the New York line are on the point of separating, and will 
not have an opportunity of meeting for the election of officers of the Stale Society of the Cincin- 
nati, Lieutenant- Colonel Benjamin Walker be directed to collect the ballots of the members 
present, and to request the officers of the artillery to send him their ballots as soon as possible, 
and that when the whole are collected, he do call in the assistance of any two officers who may 
be present to count the said ballots, and declare the election. 

In pursuance of this resolution, on the 5th of July, 



Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Walker, Captain Israel .Smith, and Captain 
Caleb Brewster having met, counted the ballots for officers of the New N ork 
State Society of the Cincinnati, and declared and certified the Election to have 
fallen on 

Major-General McDougall, President, 

His Excellency Governor Clinton, Brigadier-General, Vice-President, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, Secretary, 

( 'olonel Cortlandt, Treasurer, 

Major Fish, Assistant Treasurer. 



I784.. 

( in the 3d February, a Committee consisting "I" Colonel Philip Van Cort- 
landt, Lieutenant-Colonels, Edward Aniill, William S. Smith, Benjamin Walker, 
Majors, Nicholas Fish, Richard Piatt, Captain Edward Dunscomb, Lieutenant 
James Kaii'lie and Dr. John Cochran, were appointed to prepare a set of l!y- 
Laws for the Society, which were submitted and adopted on the 9th "1 February 



88 1111' SOCIE I V OF MM CINCINNATI 

following. The XXIst Article of these divided this State Society into two 
Districts, the Northern and the Sou (horn.* 

The General Society, at their meeting in May of this year, having proposed 
alterations to the Institution, their circular letter to the several State Societies 
suggesting them was presented to the New York State Society on the 6th 
July, but the Sot icl\ declined to take action upon it thin, and referred it to a 
Committee, who subsequently on 6th July, 1786, as will hereafter appear, made 
their report, which was adopted by the Society. 



1786. 



(in the jist January, at a meeting held at the New York Coffee Mouse, 
Baron Steuben, Colonel Samuel l>. Webb, and David Brooks, Assistant Clothier- 
General, were appointed a Committee to draw up a plan of the proper cere- 
monials f to be observed in the delivery of the I (iplomas to the members of the 
Society, especially to the elected members, and to report their proceedings to 
this Committee, which they did on the 21st of June following. 

First. — A Chaii 1 ovi red with light blue satin witli white fringt , the carvings "I the 

. inns and feci painted while, on the lop of the back a staff supported b) two hands united, hold- 
ing up the Cap ol Liberty, which is grasped bj die bald eagle (as the Order of the Society) below, 
,1 white fillet with tin n 

" We will defend it." 

this chair to he elevated en two semi-circular steps, covered on the top with light blue cloth 
and painted white in front. 

s.,.'ini. — The Standard of tlte S I ilk, imitating the standard of the United Stales, 

having thirteen blue and white stripes, alternate, in the upper corner of which to lie painted the 
bald eagle. 

Third. — . I small sou . about three feet four inches in height, covered with blue satin- 

fringed with blue -ilk fringe ami lassels. 

Fourth, — Two cushions of white satin, fringed with blue silk fringe and tassels, on one ol 
which the eagles and on the other the diplomas of the elected members will be displayi d 

That the ceremony be performed in th< Assembl) Room at the Cit] Tavern. The outside 
of the house to be decorated with laurel crowns and festoons. The room for the ceremony to l>e 
arranged in the following manner: 

The floor to be covered with carpets. 

The Chair of State for the President to be placed opposite th< dooi ol entrance, at each 
extremity of the room, amphitheatres to bi erected for the spectators. On the right of the Chair 



* In the report of a 1 Bj I tws csented by the Hon. I.unes Duanc, Chairman, on the 

i.|!h February, i 191, the following appears : 

" The XXIsl Article, whii lis State Socictj into two Districts, your Committci apprehend has, with 

respect to the Northern District, fallen into disuse. It does noi appeal from t] srds, thai more than one 

coinnuinie.il ion has evci bet -I from them, which \\.is on tit, -tit <>i March, 1 . tine the institution. 

With. 'tit having anything parttculai to propost on the Article, tin Committee think ii not impropci on this 
revision to bring it into view, though rathe) from an opinion that it is worth) of consideration, whether 

■ m\ Bj 1 .0* 01 a,t ot tlte Society which is become a dt id ought longel to 

' I'his report evidences tht appreciation ol the ceremonial attending; installations in the Old World, ami bears 
the impress ol the chairman's respect foi obscrva tvhich he had been lam tli.tr there. It is scarcely ncccs 

sarj to say that progress ha \ th most ot th 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 89 

of Slate, a distinguished chair for the \ ent; on the right of this, and to the left of the 

Chair oi be placed for the members belonging to the other Slates in the Union and 

such foreign members as should be present at the ceremony. In from of (he two amphitl< 
to be placed seals foi the members of this State Society. Opposite the President's chair to be 
placed seats for the members to be received. The gallery above the door of entrance to be deco- 
rated and therein to be stationed kettle drums and trumpets. 

The following members were appointed the Masters of Ceremony for the 4th July, 1786: 
Colonels Webb, Van Cortlandt, Lewis, and Major Giles, any two of whom to perform the duty. 

Form of Reception used by the Society at its Anniversary on the 4th oi 
July, 1786: 

The foreign members and members belonging to other State Societies, the spectators, 

kettle drums and trumpets having occupied their places, Captain Isaac Guion, the Standard 

. escorted by four members all in full uniform wearing the Order of the Society, carried the 

standard into the hall and planted it in front, to the right of the steps of the Chair of State. 

The escort returning, the Society marched in procession into the Hall in the following order: 

1 St. — Masters of Ceremony 
(Colonel Webb and Major GlI.ES). 

2d. — Members 

(Tuo by two). 

id. — The Secretary 
(Captain Robert Pemberton, carrying the original Institutions of the Society bound in light 

blue satin). 

4t/t. — The Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer 
ntt Pierre Van Cortlandt and Richard Platt, bearing the two white satin cushions 
containing the gold eagles and the diplomas,). 

5 /// . — The Vice- President 

(General SCIIUVLEK). 

i>th. — The President 

(Baron STEUBl 

At entering the room the members filed off to the right and left, and were placed by the 
Masters of Ceremony, and remained standing before their seats. The Secretary was stationed 
behind a small table, covered with white satin, placed on the left in front of the steps of the State 
Chair. The Treasurer was placed on the steps, on the right of the President, supporting the 
cushion, in which were the gold eagles, and the Deputy Treasurer on his left, supporting the 
cushion, on which were the Diplomas for the elected members, and the Masters of Ceremony 
took their places, one on the right of the Standard and the other on the left of the Secretary. At 
the entrance of the President the Standard saluted, and the kettle-drums and trumpets gave a 
flourish, until he had taken his seat; then the Standard was raised and the members took their 
seats. The Masters of Ceremony were then ordered to introduce the newly-elected members, 
who were placed on seats opposite the State Chair. The ceremony was opened by an oration 
delivered by Colonel Hamilton. After the Secretary had read the Institution the President (Cen- 
Dougall) addressed the Society and the newly elected members. The President, rising 
from his seat, put on his hat, when all the members of the Society arose at the same time 
Master of Ceremonies conducted th Richari tale, to 

the first step before the President, who asked him first, whether he desired to be received into 
iety, and if so. to promise a strict observance of the Rules and Statutes just read. Upon 
answering in the affirmative, with one hand taking the Standard, he signed the Institution with 
the other. The President then taking one of the gold eagles from the cushion held by the 1 
urer, presented it with these words, ' ' Receive this mark as a recompense for your merit and in 



90 IHK SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

remembrance of our g Independence." The kettle-drums and trumpets then gave a 

flourish. The President then taking the Diploma, with the recipient's name inscribed, presented 
it to him. with : 

*' This will show your title as a member of our Society, imitate the illustrious hero. Lucius 
whom we have chosen for our Patron, like him be the defender of your 
country and a good citi V flourish of trumpets. The President, then shaking hands 

with r Morris - nted by the Master of Ceremonies to the Vice-President, 

and from him to ail the members of the Society, who rose and saluted him, when he was assigned 
it provided at the upper end of the room g ink above the members of the Society fo 

the day only. 

••Livingston lames Duane (t I, William Duer 

and John Sloss Hobart i ' were then 

installed as honorary n.. same form and ceremonies. 

The President taking off his hat the assembly proceeded to the Banqueting Hall in the fol- 
lowing order: 

■ 
Tic S 
The a 

- 



The Pre- . at the head of the table, surrounded by the foreign and newly- 

- 

ists were given : 

: - - - 

s 

- 





/ 



Wff7</?0* 



i ill SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. t) I 

After the completion of these ceremonies the Soi iety adjourned to the sixth 
inst., when the Committee to whom were referred the proceedings of the 
Society of the Cincinnati at their last General Meeting, submitted their report. 
That they have attentively considered the alterations proposed at that meeting to 
he made in the original Constitution of the Society ; and though they highly 
approve the motives which dictated those alterations, they are of opinion it 
would be inexpedient to adopt them, and this chiefly on the two following 
accounts : 

i st. Because the Institution as proposed to be altered, would contain in 
itself no certain provision for the continuance of the Society beyond the heirs 
of the present members, this point being left to the regulation of charters 
which may never be obtained, and which in the opinion of this Committee so 
far as affects this object ought never to be granted, since the dangers appre- 
hended from the Institution could then only cease to be imaginary, when it 
should secure the sanction of a legal establishment. The utmost the Society 
ought to wish or ask from the several legislatures, is to enable it to appoint 
trustees to hold its property for the charitable purposes to which it is destined. 

2k\. Because, by a fundamental article, it obliges the Society of each State 
to lend its funds to the State, a provision which would be improper for two 
reasons — one, that in case the Society might be able to dispose of its funds to 
much greater advantage — the other, that the State might not always choose to 
borrow from the Society. 

That while the Committee entertain this opinion with respect to the pro- 
posed alterations, they are at the same time equally of opinion that some altera- 
tions in the original constitution will be proper, as well in deference to the 
sense of many of our fellow citizens, as in conformity to the true spirit of the 
Institution itself. 

The alterations they have in view respect, principally, the duration or suc- 
cession of the Society, and the distinction between honorary and regular mem- 
bers. As to the first, the provision intended to be made appears to them to 
be expressed in terms not sufficiently explicit, and as far as it may intend an 
hereditary succession by right of primogeniture is liable to this objection — that 
it refers to birth what ought to belong to merit only, a principle inconsistent with 
the genius of a Society founded on friendship and patriotism. As to the sec- 
ond, the distinction holds up an odious difference between men who have si 
their country in one way and those who have served it in another — a difference 
ill-founded in itself, and improper in a Society where the character of Patriol 
ought to be an equal title to all its members. 

The Committee, however, decline proposing any specific substitute for the 
parts of the original Constitution which appear to them exceptionable, as they 
are of opinion any alterations necessary to be made can only be digested in a 
General Meeting of the Society, specially authorized to agree upon and finally 
establish those alterations. With a view to this, they beg leave to recommend 
that a Circular Letter be written from the Society to the different State Socie- 
ties, suggesting the expediency of instructing and empowering their delegates 
at the next General Meeting, to concur in such alterations as may appear to 



,,; I ill SOCI] IV OF THE CINCINNATI. 

that meeting proper, after a full communication of wh.it shall be found to ho 

the sense of the several Societies. 

This report was signed by Richard Morris, Alexander Hamilton, David 
Brooks, Edward Dunscomb and Robert Troup as the Committee. 

\i .. meeting of the Society on the 15th of the same month it was 

Resolved, That in its opinion no State Society had a right to eleel I rs as members. 

And the following letter from Major I. 'Enfant was read : 

1'iin am 1 nn \. 10th June, 17S3 
M\ GENERA] : Immediately en receiving your letter of the 20th May, which 1 met b) 

accident at tin- p .mi the 71I1 inst.. 1 set myself about the plan of the medal. 1 

send you both faces of the design, which 1 have made large, so that you ma) better ju< 
them. In the execution they can be reduced to a convenient size, which, on account of the 

a required in the design, ought not to be less than a dollar, the subject being too 
complex to admit of its being properly detailed in a smaller com] 

1 have not made it oval, agreeably to your desire, as such a form is not proper for a medal : 
s. it can be done in the execution, if the idea should be persisted in of having the order in 
that form, to which, however, 1 think any other preferable I also believe and hope tl 

i - laded of this, and endeavor to convince the gentlemen of it who compose the com- 
mittee for forming the Institution, and to whom I beg you to communicate the following 
rvations : 

A medal, whether round oi ered, in the different states of Europe, onlj as a 

reward of the laborer and the artist, or as a sign of a manufacturing community, or religious 
society ; besides, the abusive custom prevailing particularly in Germany and Italy, of sending to 
France mountebanks, dancers and musicians, ornamented in this manner, renders it 
distinguish this order by a term which shall be peculiar to itself, and which will answer tl 
fold put noring those invested with it. and making itself resp I its simplicity, by 

such as may be in a situation minutely to examine its different parts. 

\ that 1 suppose one form or another will change the opinion of a republican people, accus- 
tomed to think ; 1 only say. that in an institution of this sort, the main design should be to render 
it respectable to everybody, and that it is only in appealing to the senses that v 
attention of the common people, who have certain habitual prejudices which cannot be destroyed. 
■ already invested with any European order would be unwilling to carry a medal, but 
it, flattered by receiving a mark of distinction from a respectable society, he should do it, the 
manner of it would by no m se the value of the order. On the contrary, giving it a 

new and particular form will be adding a recommendation to its real value, anil engage those 
invested with it to wear it in the same manner as their other military orders, which is the surest 
means of putting it at once upon a footing with them. 

The bald eagle, which is peculiar to this continent, and is distinguished from thosf 
climates by its white head anil tail, appears to me to deserve attention. 

1 send you two .. h I have made, and desire one of them may be adopted instead of 

the medal. In one, 1 make the eagle supporting a star with thirteen points, in the centre of 
which is the figure of the medal, with its inscrip veil in front as on the reverse A 

jo round the neck of the eagle, with a particular inscription, or 
the cor. msferred there. In the other, I have made simply the eagle, sup- 

porting he medal, with a legend in his claws and about the neck, which 

behind and sustains the reverse. I would prefer the latter, as it does not resemble an} 
other order, and bears a distinct character; nor will it be expensive in its execution. The first 
iugh more complex, would not be so dear as people might imagine, especially if the 
mmitted to skillful persons, which would not be the case any more 



II M 01 lin VTI. 

than with the medal, but by sending it to Europe, where it would not take upa; ' time, 

pensive as to trust the execution of it here to workmen not well acquainted with the 
busini 

A medal is a monument to be transmitted to ] quently, it is necessary that 

• 1 to the highest degree of perfection possible in the age in which it is struck. 
to strike a medal well, is a matter that requires practice and a g 

either a press proper lor this work, nor people who can make a good die, I would willingly under- 
take to recommend the execution of the medal, the eagle, or thi 
are capable of executing it to p 

far from proposing to change the oval medal into an eagle, on which should be impo 
i ot pretend to say medals cannot be ma mtrary, my idea of the 

I is that silver medals should be struck, at thi . and distri- 

buted, one to each member, as an appendage to a diploma of parchment, whereon it would be 
proper to stamp the figure of the medal, the eagle, or the star, in its full dimensions, and properly 
I, enjoining on the members to conform to it, though leaving them the liberty, provided it 
be at their own expense, of having it made of such metal and as small as they please, without 
altering any of the emblems. It seems to me by no means proper that the honorary members 
should wear the order in the same manner as the original members; it would ".that 

they should wear the medal, the star, or the eagle, round their necks, and the original members 
at their third button hole 

These remarks, I beg you, my I have translated and submitted to the gentlemen 

ied. I shall be oblig- let me know the issue of this letter, and their decision 

upon it. 

I have, etc.. etc., etc,, * 

\M. 

X. B. — The head and tail of the eagle should be silver, or enamelled in white, the body and 
wings gold, the medal on its breast and back enamelled in the same color as the legend ; sprigs 
of laurel and oak might be added in the wings enamelled in green ; the star should be pointed in 
gold, or enamelled in blue and white ; those who would be at the expense might, instead of white, 
have diamonds. The riband, as is customary in all orders, should be wati 

The Committee < spondence, appointed to frame a Circular Lei 

to the other State Societ I of Alexander Hamilton, James l)uane, 

and William Ducr, presented, through their chairman, the following : 

ft is my duty to inform you that we have been appointed by the New Ybrl 
innati, a Committee of Correspondence with instructions to frame and trans- 
mit to the other State Societies, a circular tetter on several matters of importance to the Cincinnati 
nil. In pursuance of this trust, we send you an extract from the pr .f the 

;n the 4th July last, and continued by adjournments to the 12th August foi 
This extract will itself explain the objects intended to be communicated by this letter and will 
leave little to be added by us. 

Among other things comprised in it, you will find the report of a committee on the pp 
ingsof the General Society of the Cincinnati, at their last meeting : which report, approved by our 
Society, contains its dissent from the alterations proposed to be made in the original < 
and assigns the principal reasons of that dissent. These reasons might be enforced by many 
additional reasons of weight, which however we shall omit, as we are persuaded your own reflec- 
tions will supply them. 

W e cannot help thinking, that even those Societies which have adopted the prop* 
alions will on a review of the matter be struck with the objections stated in the report, and will 
cheerfully concur in a plan for revising the business, and digesting it into a shape that will be sat- 
isfactory to all the parts of the Institution. 

At any rate, there appears to be an absolute necessity for such rcvisal, if it were only to let in 

nibbling thi ! sentiments of the respective Societies in some definite result, 

without which alterations agreed on every side to be proper, will either not be made at all or made 



94 THE SOCIETY Or THE CINCINNATI. 

partially and on principles dissimilar and subversive of the uniformity of the Institution. This 
obvious idea will, we trust, demonstrate the justness of the opinion, that il will be advisable for 
each State Society to instruct and empower its delegates at the next General Meeting to agree 
upon and finally establish all such alterations in the original Constitution as shall be thought by 
a majority expedient. The extension of the authority of the delegates to the final establishment 
ol the alterations to be agreed upon is in our opinion indispensable. The prospect of an unani- 
mous concurrence of all the particular Societies, in any plan which might be referred to their ulti- 
mate deliberations would be remote, and the objects of the Society are too simple and limited to 
require such a reference. 

Before we dismiss the subject of the proposed alterations, we shall submit an observation on 

that part of them which relates to the exclusion of the clause, by which it is made a fundamental 

principle of the Society, to promote and cherish between the respective States, that union and 

,1 honor so essentially necessary to their happiness and the future dignity of the American 

I mpire. 

We flatter ourselves we sp :ak the sense of the Society of which we are members, as well as our 
own. in declaring that we reverence the sentiments contained in that clause loo much to be willing 
it expunged. Nor can we believe that its continuance will on reflect ion, give umbrage to 
am whose views ate not unfriendly to those principles which form the basis of the Union, and 
the only sure foundation of the tranquility and happiness of this country. To such men il .an 
• vet appear criminal, that a class of citizens who had so conspicuous an agency in the American 
Revolution, as those who compose the ' Society of the Cincinnati,' should pledge themselve to 
each other in a voluntary association, to support by all means consistent with the laws, that noble- 
fabric of united independence which at so much hazard and with so many sacrifices they have con- 
tributed to erect — a fabric on the solid foundation and duration of which, the value of all they 
have done must depend — and America can never have cause to condem an institution, calculated 
to give energy and extent to a sentiment, favorable to the preservation of that union by which she 
established her liberties, and to which she must owe her future peace, respectability, and pros- 
perity. Experience, we doubt not, will teach her that the members of the Cincinnati, always 
actuated by the same virtuous and generous motives which have hitherto directed their conduct, 
will pride themselves in being through every vicissitude of her future fate, the faithful and steady 
supporters <>f her liberty, her laws, and her government. 

Permit me to call your attention to two resolutions contained in the extract transmitted here- 
with — one. relating to a limitation of the number of members to be elected — the other, relating to 
the right of the State Societies /<> elect foreigners as members of the Cincinnati. We believe the 
1 both these resolutions will appear to you prudent and conducive, perhaps we might say 
essential to the respectability of the Society. The first speaks for itself, anil the last has the 
. loi it, detailed in a letter from Major l.T'nfant, included in the extract. The opinion of 
our Society in this n sped, is founded on the particular terms of the clause of the Constitution 
providing for the election of Honorary Members, which seem inapplicable to any but citizens of 
the respective States eminent for abilities and patriotism. 

l!ut we presume, if there should be any difference of opinion as to the right of electing 
foreigners, there will be none as to the expediency of referring that matter, exclusively to the 
General Society, who will no doubt be properly impressed with the necessity of circumspection in 
admitting the claims of candidates of that description, and who will be less likely to be impor- 
tuned with ill-founded pretensions. The Society of this Stale, will be happy to find that the views 
of the So, ii lies oi the other States, coincide with theirs in the object of this letter ; should this 
not be the case, we at least, persuade ourselves they will be considered as the dictates of a pure 
zeal lor the honor and interests of the Institution. 



I ill in "I I IIF CINCINNA II. 95 



I-8 7 . 

March 17th, the Deli gati to the General Meeting were instructed to vote 
for .1 resolution for the reception of the officers of the Navy into the Society, 
they were also authorized on the part of this Society, to agree upon and finally 
establish all such alterations in the original Constitution, as shall appear to a 
majority of the General Society expedient and proper ; and that they endi 
to carry into effect the sense of this Society, as expressed in the approved 
report of the Committee of the 6th July, 17 6. 

1 >n the 5th of July, Hamilton, one of the delegates to the General Meeting, 
ted that he had attended the General Meeting at Philadelphia, on the 
7th of May ; that the delegations of some of the State Societies had not powers 
similar to those given by this Society, and therefore it was not practical 
proceed in the alterations to the Constitution agreeably to his instructions ; 
that an additional motive for suspending the consideration of those alterations, 
was, lest any change should be an obstacle to the acceptance of the offio ol 
President-General by the late Commander-in-Chief, which appeared to the 
meeting to be a matter of great importance to the Institution, for these 
reasons, principally, the discussion of the proposed alterations was deferred to 
a future pi 1 lod. 



1788. 



On the 20th March, the delegates to the General Meeting were directed "in 
any alterations which may be proposed in the present ( on titution, to gi 
themselves by the report of the Committee on the proceedings of the Gi n< ral 
ty convened at Philadelphia in [784, as confirmed by tin ty, 6th 

July, 17 

On the 4th July, Commodore Nicholson was requested to attend with the 
ty, as a member and at the same nine the lense of the Society was 
expressed, that "officers of the Marine, of similar rank, are entitled to be 
members of the Society." 



I789. 



At a meeting of the Society, held on the iilh of March, a', the Holland 
1 e, Hamilton informed the Society that he' intended to move at the nexl 
meeting, ha' the following By-Law, to be annexed to those already established 
by the S01 tety, /<> wit .• 

" That each Treasurer of the Society, before he enters upon the execution 
oi his office, shall give bond, with two sufficient sureties, to the five Trustees, to 
be named by the Society, in the sum of dollars, for the faithful! appli- 

cation of the funds of the Society." 



96 MIC SOCIETY OF I UK CINCINNATI. 

It u .in also unanimously 

. - ■, I'll. it ih thanks ol this Societj be presented to the worshipful Master and 
Brethren of the Holland Lodge, for their polite attention t< wards the Society, in accommodating 
them in so handsome a manner with their Lodge Room and furniture, al the present meeting, 
and that the Secretarj be directed to communicate the same accordingly. 



I-C)0. 

\i .1 meeting held February tst, .1 petition having appeared in the public 
papers as"being proposed to be signed by officers of the late Army ol the V. 
s , and to be presented to the National Legislature, praying that in the system 
for .. \ itional Debi a discrimination maybe made in favor of the 

original holders of the public securities, the Society unanimously disclaimed the 
principles contained in the petition, conceiving it inconsistent with their cha- 
" to seek an) advantage to themselves which might be incompatible with 
the principles of an honorable policy." 

It was determined in tins year to celebrate in the future the Anniversary of 
the birth ol Washington. 



\t a meeting held at Francis' Tavern on July 8th of this year, an original 
member of the Society was r\ \ ... and his name ordered to be erased from the 
Register. The record states that he had, "by his ungentlemanlike conduct, 
become a disgrace to the Society.' 1 This is the only instance which appears 
upon the minutes, of the exercise by this Society of so severe m\ act of dis- 
cipline.* 

1 aptain Hardy of the Marines, and Captain Hacker ^i the Navy, were ad- 
mitted as members, b) a unanimous vote, upon a full report from a Committee 
to whom their claims had been referred. 

At a Meeting of the Standing Committee, held on the 8th December, 

it was 

, that the Secretary of the Society till up a diploma in the name of the Hon 
Horatio Gates, that the Stan I mnrittee. and such other members as the 

['resident may choose, wait on him, and in the name of the Society present the same. 



[791. 

At a meeting of the Society, held on the 19th April, at Corre's Hotel, the 
Stephen Van Rensselaer {the Pa \ was elei t< d an honorary 
member. 



Vfter the death ol the ire contributed liberally to the rel 

h and children, and in iS.--, an application was ' 

Societj ttertain the appltcal ground that James GiluUnd had been ;i 

member, bin was not so .it the i ath, 




'f 7 c ' /' S 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. Q" 

No record appears in the hook of minutes of a meeting having been held on 
the 41I1 July of this year, probably on account of the epidemic {the yellow 
fever). 



1792. 

At a meeting of the Society, held on the 23d January, at Corre's Hotel, 
it was 

Resolved, that the Standing Committee be directed to hold a meeting on the first Monday 
in every month, for transacting such business as may appear to them proper, and that it be the 
duty of tlie Secretary to give notice thereof to the Members. 



No record appears in the book of minutes of a meeting having been held on 
the 4th July of this year. 



r 793- 

On the 4th of July it was resolved, that every member from other State 
Societies now residing or who may hereafter reside within this State, before he 
be admitted to vote or take part in the debates of this Society, shall produce 
his diploma or a certificate signed by. the President, or Secretary of the Society 
of the State from which he removed, of his having been regularly admitted, and 
continuing to be a member thereof, to the time of his removal into this 
State. 



l 795- 

On July tfh. — Co»i>iiOi/t>rr Silas Talbot was admitted a member. 



1798. 



On July 4th the Society unanimously directed the following address to be 
sent to |ohn Adams, the President of the United States : 



Tin- respectful Address oj the Officers of tin- Lite American Army ami Navy assembled in the 
Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Alevi )','/•/•. 

"Convened to celebrate the Anniversary of our National Independence our attention is 
naturally drawn to the interesting circumstances which characterize the present situation of our 
country. Threatened as it is by a very powerful foreign nation, we cannot but view that situation 
as critical, and in a time of imminent public danger, our late profession of soldiers seems to 
render the expression of our sentiments peculiarly proper. Whatever difference of opinion may 
at anytime have existed among us, as among other classes of citizens, concerning particular 



<)S THE SOCIETY OF 1 HI CINCINNATI. 

measures, ivi thai no difference "I opinion can or ought to exist as to .my of these 

cardinal points — that oui essential rights as a free and independent Nation are at every hazard 
to be maintained ; that the Constitution of our country as established In the choice of the people 
is in every event to be defended against all foreign control or influence; that invasion from 
abroad, front whatever quarter, is to be repelled by united and vigorous exertions ; that our 
Government ought never to subscribe to national degradation ; that, however desirable peace 
certainly is. the evils of war can bear no comparison with sacrifice or abandonment of those great 
principles. Making this declaration of our principles, the same with those which led us to assist 
in fighting the Rattles of our Revolution, we cheer full) dedicate the remnant of our lives to the 
maintenance of them, and we pledge ourselves to stand read) to seal our sincerity with our 

blood." 

By unanimous order, 

Nicholas Fish, President. 

Bl l- \ VRDUS Su AK I'WOUT, Jr. . 



To which the following answer was received : 

" To the Officers of the late American Army and Navy, assembled on the a,tli July, 179S, 
in th f the Cincinnati of thi Si Vew York. 

Gentlemen Your respectful address has been presented to me by your Senators in Con- 
gress, .Mr. North and Mr. Lawrence, who are also members of your Society. The interesting and 
critical situation of our country, threatened as it is by a very powerful foreign nation, could n< 1 fail 
to command the attention of gentlemen of your characters and habits of life. I am happy to 
find that your opinions coincide with mine upon all the cardinal points : that our equal rights-as 
a free and independent Nation are. at every hazard to be maintained ; that the Constitution of our 
Country as established by the choice of the people, is in every event to be defended against all 
foreign control or interference ; that invasion from abroad, from whatever quarter, is to be 
repelled by united and vigorous exertions ; that our Government never ought to subscribe to 
national degradation ; that the evils of war can bear no comparison with the sacrifice or aban- 
nt <>l am- of these great principles. It has been a maxim with all sound Republics, that 
to give way to injustice is the most llagrant act. ami to submit to insult, the most pernicious 
effect of cowardice ; it is impossible therefor that you, who fought the Matties of our Revolution 
with so much reputation, upon such principles, should not dedicate your lives to the maintenance 
of them." 

Philadelphia, July otli, 1798, 

[( 'UN ADAMS. 



1799. 

At the meeting on the 4th of July a letter from the South Carolina Society 
was read, containing the following extracts from their proceedings, to which 
the Delegates from this Society tn the General Society were "requested t<> pay 
due attention. - 



Extract from the Journah ' of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina. 

March 4. 1700. — The Committee who were appointed at the last meeting to dig, si the 1 
of the Comim 5 • reported the same, which was read, adopted, and is 

as follows ; 

Thai it !>e recommended as .1 line of conduct for this Society in future to observe, should the 
General Sociei\ not think propel t<> adopt a system for perpetuating the same. 



THK 501 II rY 01 THE CINCINNATI. 99 

i. That all the sons of original members, and all the male descendants 
hers, whether such descent be derived through a malt or female branch, or of such 

': reputation, died durin <r having been entitled to >■< • ome members, 

ithin six months after the army was disbanded, who may be judged worthy of becoming its 
numbers and supporters, may be elected into this Society on application, after attaining th< 
of twenty-one years, pro fourth- of a legal quarterly meeting are in his favor. That 

each member so elected shall pay inl rids of the Treasurer, for the useof the fund the sum 

of thirty dollars. 

2. That all the officers, commissioned, staff, or brevet, who have served in the Army or 
of the United Stales, since the peace :■ I ' tin, for six years, and who still continue 

therein, or who, after having served as aforesaid for six years, left the service with reputat : 
who shall have been deranged by any act or resolution of the Congress of the United States, 
after having served with reputation for three years, and all those who are, or shall hereafter be 
lied to a command in the .limy or Navy of the United States, commissioned, brevet, or staff , 
and who shall have served therein with reputation, for six years, or who shall be deranged by any 
act or resolution of Congress, after a service with reputation for three years, may be admitted 
into this Society, upon application, by election, provided three-fourths of a legal quarterly meeting 
are in his favor, and upon payment of one month's pay into the treasury of this Society, according 
to the respective ranks of the applicants for admission. 

-, No election shall be valid without the name of the candidate shall be openly proposed, at 
a regular quarterly meeting previous to the quarterly meiting, at which the ballot shall be held. 



On December 2ist. a Special Meeting was convened in consequence of the intelligence of the 
death of WASHINGTON, when it was 

Resolved, that the members of this Society will wear full mourning as for a Father, for six 
months, during which time they will also wear the badge of the Society covered with black crape. 
A committee was appointed to act in conjunction with committees from the Corporation of the 
City of New York, and other bodies, to agree upon the best manner of paying suitable honors to 
the memory of the illustrious deceased. 



Subsequently, Congress having recommended that the 22d of February be set apart for the 
purpose of testifying the public grief on this event, the Society requested the A'ev. Dr. William 
Linn to deliver a discourse adapted to the mournful occasion.- The solemnities were observed in 
the new Dutch Church in Nassau street, and were opened with a solemn dirge on the 
followed by a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Rodgers, an anthem was sung, and the eulogy delivered 
by the Rev. Dr. Linn. There was a voluntary upon the organ at the conclusion. 



1801. 

At a meeting in January it was proposed to erect a monument within the 
City of New York to the memory of WASHINGTON. It was subsequently 
decided, that the monument should be an equestrian statue of bronze, with suit- 
able inscriptions and ornaments. For this purpose a large amount of money was 

ted, and still more subscribed, but not sufficient to defray the 
cost. The money which had been collected was some years afterwards 
returned to the contributors with the accumulation of interest thereon. 

Major James Fairlie and the Secretary, Lieutenant John Stagg, Jr., were 



IOO THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

appointed a Committee to design a standard suitable for the Society, and at a 
subsequent meeting presented the following report, which was adopted and 
ordered to be executed. 

" That a banner be adopted instead of a standard, of the foim hereunto annexed, to be 
made of silk, and to measure about forty-one inches in length, and twenty-eight inches in breadth. 
That the stars be silver embroidered on a blue field. Thirteen stripes, light blue and white alter- 
nately. Fringe, silver, about two inches in length. On the top of the staff— which is to be 
painted white, and to be about ten feet in length — to be represented an eagle — the order of the 
Society — to be made of brass or copper, and gilt — from its beak a gilt chain, suspending the 
banner." In the Treasurer's report following appears this item, "To Madam Bancel for 
making the standard, sixty -five dollars." 



l802. 

July 5. — The Standing Committee was constituted, the Committee to which 
all applications to be admitted as members of the ( 'incinnati should be presented, 
and they were directed to report the same to the Society lor final action. 
Prior to this, under a resolution of March, 1789, there hail been a separate 
"Committee on Claims,'' which considered all such applications. 



l807. 

At a meeting of the Standing Committee on 7th December, a communica- 
tion being made to the Society by Colon:! Smith that a turnpike road runs 
directly over tin grave of the late Baron Steuben, it was 

A' wived, I hat the society, holding in reverence and respect his memory, the President be 
requested to communicate with Colonels Walker and North, and to report whether any and what 
steps would be proper for the Society to adopt on the subject, not interfering with the wishes of 
the deceased previous to his death, and that the President report to the Standing Committee at 
the next monthly meeting the result of his inquiries. 



I804. 



At the Standing Committee's Meeting of 27th June, the secretary reported 
that an invitation had been send to Colon,! John Trumbull, late one of the 
Commissioners on the part of the United States of tin Court of Great Britain, 
to attend the celebration of the Anniversary of the National Independence on 
the following 4th July. The Minutes of 4th July state that "the Society 
adjourned to Russ's Hotel, where the 29th Anniversary of the day was cele- 
brated with a suitable entertainment, Commodore Truxton and Colonel Trum- 
bull being among the guests and that after the dinner, a number of appropriate 
toasts were drank and the evening spent in that harmony and social glee, which 
has ever distinguished the Society on that auspicious day." 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. IOI 

The following resolution was adopted at the meeting of the Society on the 
13th July. 

Resolved, That in future Public Processions of Ibis Society the following order be observed, 
to wit : 

The Sergeant at inns. 

The President. 

The Standard borne by an offii , > in full uniform. 

Tin- Secretai 1 

The Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurer. 

Tin- Standing Committee. 

The Members — two ami two. 

The Vice-President. 

It was also at the same meeting 

R wived, That on the occasion of the Society's being in mourning the eagle shall be worn 
on the left breast, the ribbon covered with crape, a crape chevron round the left arm above the 
elbow, to be worn for one month. 



On the 4th of |ul\-. on motion of Hamilton, the Committee were directed, 
in rase of a favorable report upon claims for admission as a member 
of right (except where there may have been a previous admission in another 
State Society), to report specifically the ground upon which they conceive the 
original right of the applicant to stand, and the reason which may have pre- 
vented an earlier application for admission if any delay has been. 



July 13. — The death of Hamilton was announced, ami a special meeting of 
the Society was called. The Society was requested by a Committee of the 
Common Council of the City of New York, to take order for the funeral pro- 
cession, and appointed a Committee fur the purpose. At their request, the 
Honorable Gouverneur Morris delivered the eulogium at the tomb of tin di 
ceased. The Society adopted resolutions expressive of the 'deepest affliction at an 
event which has deprived them of their most illustrious member, their country 
of its most enlightened and useful statesman, and the world of one of those 
extraordinary men which ages have seldom produced.'' Letters were addressed 
to the Vice- President-General, and to the other State Societies, announcing the 
sad event, and the deep and universal sorrow it has occasioned in this So< iety, 
and amongst their fellow citizens of every description. At the request of the 
Society, the Rev. Dr. John M. Mason delivered an oration iii honor of the 
talents, the virtues, and the eminent services of this great man. 



102 THE SOCI] n 01 I HI. CINCINNATI. 

The Society subsequently erected a Mural Tablet in Trinity Church, New 
York City, to him with the following inscription : 

THIS TABLET 
does not profess to perpetuate 

the Memo! \ of a Man 

to whom the age lias produced 

no superior 

nor to emblazon worth 

eminently conspicuous in every feature 

of his countrys greatness 
nor to anticipate prosperity in their 
judgment of the loss which she I 
sustained by his premature death 
BUT TO ITT] 

in the simplicity ol grief 

the veneration ami anguish which fill 

the hearts of the members of the 

New Vork Statb Socn 1 1 of 

CINCINN \ n 

on every recollei 

heir illustrious Bri 

M VJOR Uenerai 

Al EX VNDER II AM 1 1 TON 

Ouil l I»-| A'. 1 \ I 1 - ! 



On August 2d, a letter was read from Edward Roach, late Secretary of 
the Delaware State Society, stating that that Societj liad been dissolved long 
since, and the funds been divided among the members. 



The following was adopted on the 5th December : 

, Thai all future resolution-, passed in this Committee shall be brou il foi > ird by 
the movei in writing, which original resolution shall be preserved on file 1 vo chers lor the 
entry thereof in the minutes. 



1805. 

On the |tli of July, a Committee appointed al a former meeting to make 
application to the Legislature for an Act of Incorporation^ was discharged, and 
a new Committee requested tl to pursue this desirable object without fail."f 

* This tablet is in the Robing room. Tin S 

t was placed in the Merchants' Exchange, N. Y. < 
' Th< . d to thi Legislature, but without \ L"he Society determined, however, 

to persist in the effort, and r> .. successively adopted in 1810, 

3 * ' ■ cations were, however, in each case unsuccessful, and 1 - ; at the present 

>rat< d, 



I III S0C1ET\ 01 I in C1N< l-WATI. 103 

On December 4th, an application having been made to the Standing 
Committee by the widow oi .1 deceased member for pecuniary aid, after full 
consideration, n was resolved, that she has no claims on the Society merely as 
the widow of a deceased member, " that the funds arc exclusively reserved for 
the relief of indigent members, their widows or children upon proof being 
exhibited of their situation and nei essities." 



1806. 

On the 4th July, a form of certificate of membership was adopted to be 
endorsed upon the bacfeof the original diploma in cases where an hereditary 
member was admitted by right of representation of the original member. 



On Nov. 5th it was represented that the Connecticut Society had been dis- 
solved, and their funds deposited in the hands of a trustee subject to the Older 
of the individual members, according to their respective deposits. 



l8lO. 

By a resolution passed on the 4th July, fifteen members being present shall 
hereafter be deemed a quorum of the Society competent to transact business 
It was also Resolved, that Captains Fowler, Bleecker, Dunscomb, Majors Platl 
and Fairlie be a Committee to compile a new publication of the By-Laws, pro- 
ceedings of the General Society, a register of the New York line in the Revo- 
lutionary Army, and the present members of the New York State Society, and 
tor the better enabling them to carry this resolution into effect, they arc hen I \ 
authorized to have free atctss to the books and pa] ers of the Scent)'. 



I8I3. 

On the 5th of July an application for admission was presented in behalf ol a 
younger brother of the original member, who died without leaving issue, the 

elder brother having renounced in his favor. The Society dismissed the appli- 
cation as " not within the purview of the Constitution or the rules of the 

Society."* 

* [n August, 1818, the Standing I tee unanimously adopted a different . pon the same point, 

and recommended thi rcpn and on 

1 ' !i ■' h ■ 1 1 ■■. 1 1 . 1 h< ociety adopted their recommendation, and admitted the youn 

Graham a nephew, the son of th brothci I >hn Graham, who as well as his elder brother Augustine 

1 iraham, were dec* a 



IC4 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



I8l 5 . 



On Nov. the 15th, it was resolved that three Trustees of the funds of the 
Society be appointed, in whose name all the funds are to be invested. In the 
absence of an act of incorporation the Society's funds have since the above 
date continued to be thus invested. 



l8l6. 

In 1S16, an application was presented for admission by James Smith, only 
-.,.11 of Surgeon [saac Smith, who claimed to have been an officer in the Revolu- 
tionary Army, and who had died about the year 1792, without having united 
with the Society. It was decided that the father having declined becoming a 
member of the Society during his lifetime, and no sufficient reasons being 
offered for his having so declined, his rights ought to be considered as having 
expired with him. 



1817, 



A special meeting of the Society was held on the nth of June for the pur- 
pose of paving their respects to President Monroe, then on an official visit in 
the City of Xew York. A procession was formed, and the Society in a body 
waited upon the President, when an address was made to him in behalf of the 
Society by a Committee for that purpose, to which the President replied as 
follows : 

" The opportunity, which my visit to this City in the discharge of important public duties 
has pre- meeting the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, with many of whom I 

was well acquainted in our Revolution, affords me heartfelt satisfaction. It is impossible to meet 
any of those patriotic citizens whose valuable services w-ere so intimately connected with that 
great event, without recollections which it is equally just and honorable to cherish. 

' In vour support of all proper measures for the national defence and advancement of the 
public welfare. I have the utmost confidence. Those whose zeal and patriotism were so fully 
tried in that struggle will never fail to rally to the standard of their country in any emergency. " 



On the 4th July, the following was adopted : 

Resolved, That the officers of the Revolutionary War bear the rank that they respectfully held 
during that war, and that the members since, by right, bear the title of Mr. 



l8l8. 

On the 4th July the President read to the Society a letter from His Excel- 
lency De Witt Clinton, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Xew 




msonr. 



^7, ^ ?^rH*^***^ 



IK I V HI I HI < l\l INN ATI. 105 

York, covering an order' of the Adjutant-General, relative to the honors to be 
conferred to the remains of General Richard Montgomery. Whereupon it was 

R wived, Thai I Stevens, Trumbull, Majors Fish. Piatt and Fairlie, and Captain 

Fowler be a Committee with unlimited powers, to make the necessary arrangements for paying 
the last Tribute of respect to the remains of that distinguished hero of the Revolution. It was 
also 

i That the President, Colonels Varick, Willett, Giles and Trumbull, Majors Fish, 

(.'l.nk-,. ,n, and North, and Captain Tiebout be the pall-bearers. 



l8l9. 



At a meeting of the Society, held 24th February, on motion of Colonels • 

it was 

Resolved, That whereas, by the Constitution of this Society it is amongst other things pro- 
vided as follows, viz.; " As there are and will at all times be, men in the respective States eminent 
for their ability and patriotism, whose views may be directed to the same laudable objects with 
those of the Cincinnati, it shall be a rule to admit such characters as honorary members for their 
lives only." That this Society in testimony of the high sense which it entertains of the patriotism, 
military talents and ability of Major-General Andrew Jackson, and of the meritorious services 
rendered by him in his early and judieious arrangements for the defence of New Orleans, and 
his gallant defence of that city on the 8th January. 1S15, which eventuated in the entire repulse, 
overthrow, and destruction of the Veteran British Army then before it, thereby greatly exalting 
the military reputation of our Country, do admit him and he is hereby admitted an honorary 
member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 



On the 5th July, on motion of Major Fairlie, it was 

Resolved, That the Standi hall not meet to exceed four times in each year, 

ordinary occasions excepted. 



18 2;,. 

At a special meeting on the 18th of June, called to take into consideration 
a letter addressed to the N. Y. State Society of the Cincinnati by the Hon 
the Corporation of the City of New York, inviting its officers and members to 
dine with them at the City Hall on the coming 4th of July, in celebration of the 
Anniversary of American Independence, the Standing Committee directed its 
(hait man and Secretary to give the following answer : 

"To Jacob Morton, Esq. For thi 1 ittee of Arrangements of the Honorable th< 

poration of the City of New York. 
The members of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati regret that it will not be in 
their power to accept the polite invitation of the Honorable the Corporation, to dinner on the 
4th day of July next. The members deem it respectful to assign their reasons for not accepting 
an invitation from such a distinguished public body as the Corporation of the Cit) •■! New 



106 i M i OCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 

The Societj was instituted for tin avowed objecl ol cultivating in peace those affections, 
sympathies, and fricndlj relations, which united the members (who were officers of the Revolu- 
tionary Army) during tin struggle foi oui Independence, and the Anniversarj of that fndepend- 

.. from the first organi ation of the Societj its Anniversary, in order that the 

members of this, and other Cincinnati Societies, and thi Vet< rans of the Revolution, might on 
that daj assemble together, and bj acts of mutual kindness, and good will, and the recollections 
ol I'.ii ..mi, cemenl and brighten the chain which has so 1"":; bound them together. 

In addition to which, previous to the receipt "I the invitation of the Honorable I lie Corpoi 
ation, the Standing Committee of the Society, pursuant to the By-Laws, had adopted measures 
preparatory in the approaching Anniversary, and engaged .1 dinner, which would ol itself, deprive 
the Societj ol the honor "i dining with the Corporation." 

Bj order of the Standing Committee, 

JOHN TRUMBULL, [Chairman). 
I Ianii 1 E, I lUNSi "Mi:, (Se, re/ai i'). 



tin the |ili of J11I3 an application for admission was presented by a nephew 
ol ,1 dec< ased original member who died without issue, leaving one sister of the 
full Mood, and six brothers and sisters of the half blood. The applicant was 
the eldest son of the sister of the full blood. The Standing Committee on 
I lecember 3, unanimously reported in favor of his admission.* 



[824. 



\t the Anniversary meeting of July 5th, on motion oi Mr. Graham, the 
following preamble and resolution was adopted : 

Whereas, Hie Congi ii tin 1 nited States, in accordance with the sentiments of the 
Nation, have invited 1 1 iFayette t<> visit the United States, and it having turn repre- 

sented that the General has accepted thi invitation and will shortl) visit this city, the members 
ol the New York State Societj ol the Cincinnati, his associates in arms, and the witnesses of 
tinguished and valuable services rendered to this country by General La Fayette during 

thai arduous struggle, which terminated in th< Independence of thi I nited States, an d m to 

1. nder to him the highest honors ; then for, 

Resolved, I nanimously, that Morgan Lewis, John Trumbull, Philip Van Cortlandt, Marinus 
Willetl and Nicholas Fish be a committee to wail upon General I a Fayette on his arrival, and to 
assure him of the respect and esteem which is entertained for him by the members <>f this 
Societj to introduce him to the Societj (which the President will convene foi that purpose) 
and generallj to adopt such measures as, in the opinion ol the Committee, may conduce to his 
distinguished reception, and render his visit to this country satit fai tory, 

The special meeting and banquet 01 the New York State Societj was held, 
agreeable to public notice, on the 6th September, at Washington Hall, for the 
purpose ol pom- that tribute of respect to La Fayette which his services, 
during and since our glorious Revolution, justly entitle him. The members 
present at the banquet wen': The President, Colonel Varick ; the Vice Presi- 
dent, Colonel Morgan Lewis; Captain Theodosius Fowler {Treasurer), Lieu- 
tenant Jonas Addoms, Lieutenant Lebbeus Loomis, Captain Leonard Bleecker, 
Jedidiah Waterman, Lieutenant William Torrey, Lieutenant William 



1 ihn J, Plume in right ol Garret Van Wa 



mi SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 107 

Walton Moms, Lieut-Colonel Lewis Morris, Captain Henry Tiebout, Major 
Nicholas Fish, Lieutenant Samuel Cooper, Lieut. -Colonel Robert Troup, Lieu- 
tenant Abijah Hammond, Lieutenant William Leaycraft, Colonel Simeon De 
Win, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, Lieutenant Abraham Leggett, Dr. John R. 
II. Rodgers, Lieutenant Bezaleel Howe, Major Richard Piatt, Captain James 
Brewster, Captain Ebenezer Macomber, Majot Matthew Clarkson, /'/.James 
Davidson, Captain William Popham, Captain Peter Taulman, Captain Daniel 
Kemper, Captain Nathaniel Norton, Captain Charles Graham, and the following 
hereditary members : John J. Plume, Horatio Gates Stevens, Hi nrj S. Dodge, 
Anthony Lamb, Brigham Howe, John L. C. Hardy, Alexander Hamilton, and 
Stephen Van Rensselaer and Jacob Morton, honorary members. 



1S25. 

General La Fayette having represented to the Society that the Baron 
D'Aurier, a lieutenanl general in the armies of France, had served in the 
I nihil States during the War of the Revolution as an officei oi distinguished 
merit, in the division of the French troops then commanded l>\ General the 
Count Rochambeau, and as allies of the American Army under the immediate 
command of Hh Excellency General Washington at the capture of Vorktown, 
in October, 1781, and that the said Baron D'Aurier is a gentleman of very 
estimable and fair character, and is 111 his sentiments a patriot, and worthy of 
being enrolled as a brother among the surviving officers ol the \nny of the 
I nited States of the Revolution, and that the llaron is desirous of becoming 
.in honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

On the |th July this Society, in testimony of the high sense it entertains 
of the political principles, the fair character and talents, and the meritorious 
services of the Baron D'Aurier in the War ol the Revolution for the hide 
pendence of the United States of America, do admit him, and hi' is hereby 
admitted an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati : 

["hat a copy ol thi preceding resolution, together with a diploma, with the una 
certificate endorsed thereon and signed by the Presidenl "I ilii-. Society, be delivered t" our 
friend and brother, General La Fayette, with a request that he will I" pleased, on his return to 
France, to present the same in due form to tin- Baron 1 1'Aurier. 



\i a spei 1.1I meeting of the Society, held on the 29th l >< tober, the So< ietj 
accepted the invitation to attend the celebration of the opening ol the Erie 

Canal on November 4th. 



1826. 

<>n the |th July, Nicholas Van Rensselaer, a Lieutenant in the isi v \ 
Regiment of the Revolutionary Army, was permitted to subscribe Ins signature 



IO>S 1111 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

to the Institution of the Society, " nunc pro tunc" as an original member, it 
appearing that he was an original member, but had omitted to subscribe to it 
before. 



The Society then adjourned to the Common Council Chamber, pursuant to 
invitation to be present at the presentation by his Honor the Mayor, of the 
Canal Medal, voted by the Corporation, to the children of the late Robert 
Fulton (deceased), and subsequently dined with the Honorable the Corpor- 
ation of the City of New York, at the City Hall. 



The venerable John Adams having died at Quincy, in the State of Massa- 
chusetts, on the 4th July of this year, and Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, in 
the State of Virginia, on the same day, being the 50th anniversary of that 
memorable da) on which, both the above named venerated Patriots and States- 
mi , subscribed the Declaration of our National Independence, and the Cor 
poration of the City having determined to celebrate so remarkable an event by 
a procession, and appropriate religious services, and having also requested the 
cooperation of this Society, the following was issued by direction of the 
President of the Society, to wit : 

Generai Order, July 10th. 

The members of the Society are requested to meet .a the City II. ill, on Wednesday morning 
next, .a half past nine o'clock, to unite with the Honorable the Corporation, in paying tributes 
of respect to our late illustrious fellow citizens, John Adams and 1'homas lefferson. The menv 

to wear the usual badge of mourning. 

Charles Graham (S RICHARD VARICK (President). 

The religious services upon the above occasion were performed at the 
Middle 1 Hitch Church, in Nassau Street, consisting of a prayer by the Reverend 
Mr. Shroader, a sermon by the Reverend Mr. Rowan, and a prayer by the 
Reverend Mr. Stanford. 



1S2S. 

Ills Excellency DeWitt Clinton, Governor <<i tins State, having departed 
this life, tin- following was issued on the 15th of February: 

Geni ral Order. 

The President performs the melancholy duty of announcing t" the Members thai his ■' 1 - 
.'./.•, i' DeWitt Clinton, Governor of the Stale, and a membei of this Stale Society, departed this 
\ \ , en the 6th instant. 

Clinton's public ami private life are so generally known, his patriotism ami love of 
countrj so universally admitted, his philanthropy and talents so justly admired, that his death is 
at this time to be mourned as a national loss, while his attachment to the members of the Society, 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 109 

and his continued exertion to promote the best interests of the institution, make him to be 
regretted as a personal friend. 

The members of the Societj will therefore wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty 
days, in evince their respect for his memory. 

Charles Graham (Se, ■...; ry). RICHARD VARICK {President).* 



On the 4th of July, Colonel Trumbull presented to the Society a portrait 
— painted by himself — of Bryan Rossiter, for many years the Sergeant-at 
Arms of the Society. This portrait is now in the custody of the New York 
1 1 istorical Society. 



1829. 

8th April, Major William B. Crosby and the Secretary, who had been here- 
tofore appointed a Committee to procure a new eagle for the Standard of the 
Society, reported that they had performed the duty assigned them, and produced 
an eagle, elegantly gilt upon copper, made by Nel West, a mechanic of this city, 
whereupon it was resolved, that said report be accepted, and further, that the 
Chairman draw his warrant upon the Treasurer, in favor of Mr. West, for thirty 
dollars, the amount of his account for said eagle, and that t^e Committee be 
authorized to procure a new and lighter chain, to suspend the Banner of the 
Society to the said eagle. 



183O. 



The Society, on the 5th July, addressed the following' letter to Colonel 
Marinus Willett : \ 

Dear Sir : The Society congratulate you upon the return of our national anniversary, the) 
feel grateful that an overruling Providence lias permitted you to live to witness this 54th anni- 
versary, but while they regret that your infirmities have not permitted you to join your brothers 
in the public celebration of the day, they are fully sensible that no one feels a deeper interest in 
the prosperity and happiness of the Nation than yourself. The members of the Society assure 
you of Iheir affectionate regard and profound respect. 

Horatio Gates Stevens (Acting Secretary). RICHARD VARICK (President). 

* A discourse commemorative of the character and public servici - of I leWitt Clinton, was deliven d in the 
Middle Dutch Church, on the Sth of November, by Dr. David Hosack, and attended by iln mei 

' Colonel Willett died ..-a August, 1830, seventeen days afterwards. 



THE SOCIET\ "I I III CINCINNATI. 



t830. 



The Society addressed the following letter to La Fayette : 

New Vork, 1 tecember 4, 1 ,o 

l'n 1 La Fayetti -The members of the New Vork State Societj of the Cincinnati, 

a remnant of your comrades in the wai whi< h raised tin- United States to the r.mk of a lux- and 
independent nation address you General, at this time with no common emotions. Wen oice 
with the French people, and with the friends of the rights of man throughout the cil 
world, al the victory which tin- National Guards and their associates, recently obtained over 
despotism. Victory is common to the brave, but tin- forbearance humanity and dignity ol con- 
duct exercised toward the conquered in the late Revolution, created in us heartfelt joy, mingled 
with profoum for the actors in that great and happy event ; nor do we less appreciate 

the wisdom which when the right and power of self-government were obtained, calmed the 
tempest and led to enjoy the good resulting from it. And more especiallj Genet il, 

we rejoice that you, our friend and compatriot, have been active in promoting the forbi 
and humanity which so eminently distinguish the late Revolution from all others. 

We pray God to and your great nation in his especial keeping ; to frustrate the 

machinations of the unprincipled and int< rested who ,, ek to plunge France into a sea ol anarchy 
and blood ; and that you may remain in peace, ami in the full enjoyment of civil and religious 
liberty. Such is not onh the fervent prayer of your respectful and affectionate comrades, lint of 
the whi of [he I 'nited Males. 

Receive General, the assurance of the distinguished consideration ol the members of the 
. 1 ety. 

By order, ami on behall ol the New \ ork State Society of 'he ( lincinnati. 

i harli i Gs mi vm {Seerv, RICHARD \ ARICK {Presiden | 



183I. 

General ( >rder. — Tin- following was issue. 1 mi July 5th : 

The President with deep and sincere regret announces to the members of the Society, that 
the venerable James Monroe, late President of the U. S., and a member of the \ irginia Society 
of the Cincinnati, died at his residence in this city yesterdaj at half-pas! tin,, o'clock ['. M., 
being the 55th anniversary of our National Independence. 

Mi Monroe joined the army of the Revolution in the Fall or Winter of 1776 as a volunteer, 
and brought with him from Virginia a company of artillery, which he raised and commanded, 
and ol which the late William Washington was lieutenant. Colonel Monroe sought the posl ol 
danger at the Battle of Trenton on the 26th December. 1771c and greatly distinguished himself 
as an officer in that action, in which he was severely wounded, having been shot through the 
breast, and by which he was disabled tot nearly ;. year. Mter his recovery he was appointed 
Aid-del amp lo I/.:. General Lord Sterling, and continued on his staff for some time. lie 
wa- subsequently elected a member of the Continental I md was a member in the year 

[7S3, when Washington resigned his commission to that body. After the war Colonel Monroe 
was appointed by Washington, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, and was subse- 
quently appointed by Madison, Secretary of State, from 1 S 1 1 to the Fall of 1S14, when in conse- 
quence of the war with Great Britain, in which the United States were then engaged, ami to give 
greater vigor to t lie operations ol the War Department, he was appointed Secretary ol War, and 
helil th al the pea.e of [S15, when he was again placed by Madison at the head of the 

Department of State. 



I HE SOCIE1 V OF I HE VII. I r I 

Colonel Monroe was installed President of the Uuited States on the 4th March, I Si 7, and 
held that high and dignified office for two terms. 

The members of the Society are directed to wear the usual badge of mourning for a deceased 
member for thirty days, to attend the funeral of the deceased on Thursday next, at 10 
\. \i.. from the place to be appointed for that purpose. 

Ch - ; tary). RICHARD \ '.I'!' 



1832. 
General Order. — The following was issued on 22d February: 

'I be members of the Society having been invited by ///. //onoraile, tl if the 

City, to unite with them in celebrating the Centennial return of the birthday of tl 

ral WASHINGTON, first Pn ident are requested to 

assemble for that purpose at the City Hall this day. at 1 

MORG VN LI Hi). 

The Society attended the I 1 in pursuance of the above order. The 

exen held at the Middle Dutch Church, and c< t' a prayer by 

the Reverend Dr. Kuypers, an Samuel 

worth, was sung by the choir, under the direction of Mr. Earle, an oration 
'■'ii,i Morgan Lewis. An anthem beinj sung, tl.' with 

prayer and benediction by the Reverend Dr. Milnor, when the 1 
resumed its march back to the City Hall. Brigadier-General Gilbert Hopkins 
being the Crand Marshal of the day. The vessels in the harbor 
rated with flags from sunrise to sunset. Salutes were fired from the Navy Yard 
and (Governor's Island. The City Hall clock was brilliantly illuminated from 
7 until 10 p. m. 

n the occasion the Society received the following: 

" Captain Belknap of the Army would esteem himself honored if the Cincinnati S01 
New York and the soldiers of the Army of the Revolution v. -,f the 

Military Band, attached to the Post he commands, during the celebration of the Centennial 
Anniversary of the birth of their former chief." 

Bedlow's Island, 22 February, 1 



N. V. Statf. Society of thj I :i, 24 August 1 

ral Order. 

The President announces to the member that Colonel Samuel War 

the Rhode Island line of the Continental Army, and a member of the Rhode Isl 
of the Cincinnati, died in this city on the loth inst., in tl r of his age. Colonel 

Ward was a brave and useful officer, distinguished for fir 

in early life his talents to the study of the military pr fas enabled fEcient 

aid to his country in the War of Independence. In May, 177;, he was commissioned as Captain 
in the R. I. Army of observation — then commanded ne— and subsequently 

served at the siege "f Boston. Ir. September of the same year he was appointed to command a 
Company of Volunteers, and joined the expedition which was led by Colonel Arnold - by the Ken- 



[12 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

ml,, and th( Wilderness— to Quebec. In the attempt to storm that fortress in the night of the 
-ost i,t December, 17:5, he was attached to Arnold's command and was, with most of that 
detachment, made a prisoner. He was exchanged in 1776, and in January, [777, was commis- 
sioned as M Greene's Regiment of the K. I. line of the Amu, and was at the 
battle of Red Bank on the 22d of October. In 1778 his Regiment was ordered to the deft 1 e ol 
his native State, and was commanded by him in the skirmishes with the enemy which took place 
1 treat. In 1771) he wa ioned as 1 ieutenanl Colonel and served 
with that rank until 1 7> 1 . when he retired from the Army. 

The members of this Society will, to evince their respect for the memory ot a brother offv 
whose remains are deposited anion;;' them, wear the usual badge of mourning for thirt) days. 

Charles Graham ,■ MORGAN LEWIS {President). 



[834. 



General Order. — On 20th June the following was issued : 

["he President with the most unfeigned regret announces to the members of the Society, 
ih,- death of theii ici p ted friend, General La layette, who,!,,.; at 

tin- 20 Mo last, in the 77th vear of his age. It is impossible, in the limits of an order, 
to give even l sketch of the life of him whose fame has spread over the ( llobe, and wh 
have shed lustreupon two Hemispheres, nor is it necessary. 1 >f his bravery in the battles in 
the Revolution, more especially at Hraidywinc and Yorktown, yon were witnesses, ami h 
of this, his adopted country, and his affectionate attachment to yon, his brothers in arms, 
remains indelibly engraven upon your hearts. Generall-A Fayette was a true disciple of repub- 
lican liberty; at the age of twenty-one he abandoned the pleasures of the Court of 1 ranee, the 
ease and enjoyment of rank and wealth, and joined the Americans in their arduous struggle lot 
independence. lie united his destiny with yours in that memorable contest, and is entitled to a 
large share of its honor and glorv. lie became the adopted son of our venerated lather, 
Washington, and it is remarkable how much in after life, and in the revolutions of his 
native land, "lie displayed that wisdom, moderation, modesty, and firmness, which he had 
learned from his adopted parent. General La Fayette lived to witness the happiness of the 
. had aided inlaying- the foundation, and his late visit to it is a proud monu- 
ment of a Nation's gratitude to the Nation's guest. 

The Secretary will cause the Banner of the Society to be shrouded with black, and the mem- 
bers are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in remembrance of their 
departed companion. 

CitAKi is Graham {Secretary), MORGAN LEWIS {President). 

The Sot et) on the 26th of June convened with the Common Council al 
the Citj 11. ill to pay funeral honors to La Fayette. A procession under the 
Grand Marshal of the day. Gilbert Hopkins, Esq., assisted by Brigadier- Gene- 
rals ('.arret Striker, John Lott, John Lloyd, Colo . 's Isaac L. Varian. Samuel 
1». Jackson, VVillliam L. Morris, Frederick Pentz, Nathan 15. Graham and 
Henry 1'. Robinson, William S. Jones, also Lieutenant-Colonels Morgan L. 
Smith, Andrew Warner and Ma/01 Robert Brown, moved up Chatham Street 
and the Bowery, to Broome Street to Broadway, to Castle Garden, where the 
tomes were performed. The military, under the command of Major- 
facob Morton, preceded the following pall-bearers, namely, Morgan 
Lewis, President of the Cincinnati, Colonels John Trumbull. Simeon He Witt. 



THE ,Oi II IV OF THE CINCINNATI. I I 5 

William North, Majors William Popham, Samuel Cooper, Captains John Van 
Dyck and Nathaniel Norton, all of whom were members of the Cincinnati 
Society, on each side of the cenotaph which was drawn by eight cream- 
colored horses. Then followed the Clergy, the Mayor (Cornelius W. Lawrem i |, 
the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of the State — the Hon. James Tall- 
madge, the orator of the day — the Common Council — the Board of Aldermen — 
the Mayor and Common Council of Brooklyn — the Society of the < 'im innati — 
Consul of Trance and French residents — the Judges of the United State-,, 
State and City Courts — the Recorder — Members of the Senate and Hous ol 
Representatives of the United States — Members of the Legislature of the State 
— Foreign Ministers and Consuls — the Grand Lodge of the State — Members 
bf the liar — U. S. Marshals — the Sheriff and other Officers of the city- 
cers of the Army and Navy of the U. S. — the President, Trustees and Faculty 
of Columbia College and the New York University — the College of Physii ians 
and Surgeons — the Chamber of Commerce — Board of Trade — Officers of the 
Customs — Wardens — Harbor Masters — the Fire Department — Marine and 
other Societies, and Citizens of New York, Brooklyn and other cities. The 
church bells were tolled, all the public buildings, as well as all the vessels in 
the harbor, had their colors hois'.ed half-mast, and all business was suspended 
throughout the city. 



1836. 

On the 4th of July, John Baptiste Augustc — son of the Baron D'Aurier, ,m 
honorary member — was elected to membership in the New York State S01 iety, 
but never having complied with the requirements of the Institution by signing 
Ins name to the same, failed to avail himself of the honor. 



Gener \\. Ordj k. — The following was issued the 3d December : 

The President with deep and sincere regard announces lo the Members of die Society, 
that their worthy and respected friend, Major General Jacob Morton died this morning of 
apoplexy, in the 76 year of his age. His death was awfully sudden, and shou s upon 

those who survive, the great truth "in the midst of life we are in death," and induce them to 
be prepared — as lie believes the General was — for their final account. 

General Morton, like most of the young gentlemen who were driven from this City by the 
war of the Revolution, and its occupation by the British, studied law with the late fudge Patterson 
of New Jersey, was first admitted to the bar of New Jersey, and afterwards to that ol thi State, 
and practiced law in this city for many years, lie received his lirst commission as an offi 
the militia on or about the yen [786, and continued in commission until the time of his death, 
lie was upon duty and acted as one of the Marshals of the day, at the Inauguration of General 
Washington, which look place in this city on the 30th day of April, 1789. lie was afterwards 
Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Infantry, and was transferred with that regiment lo the Artillery, 
and upon the death of General Ebenezer Stevens, was appointed in 1S15 to the command of the 
1st Division of the Artillery of this State. He served as a Brigadier-General, in the War 1812 
to 1S15, under the orders of the I'resident of this Society, who was honored by the President of 
the United States, with the command of the Military I listrict which included the City of New 



i i i THE SOCIE IV OF I 111 CINCINNATI. 

York. The President of the Society deems it Morton to state, that whether 

in peace or war he, and the troops under his command werealv to defend their country, 

and to sustain the civil authority to put down riot 01 civil commotions, tn civil life, G 

In the year [-95 he was elected .1 mcmbei of the !!>• . ol 
Assembh from this lay, Vcl 

was passed concentrating all the powers of the Justices of the Peace in c'i\il Suits, 

at the 1 ity Hall and 1 Morton, the 

late John Wells, James Morris, William Johnson and Samuel Ji inled theju 

ii. After Idling the Uderman, I - Inspector in 1S16, 

ncil of this City, which office he lit on than twenty 

I 

In 1 : ■ complished gentleman, an affectionate husband, a 

kind father, hospitable tostrangers, a friend of the pooi and asincere Christain, and in everj ivaj 

tidence and esteem of his fel s, and of the members ol this S01 

which he was an honorary member. 

The funeral will ta . m No. 9 State Street, on the 6th December, at 2 1. \i.. and 

v aie requested to wear the usual badge ol mourning for thirty days in 
of their de< ciate. 

Charles Graham (5 M< 'KG VN 1 1 \\ IS I 



1837. 

An application being made for admission by Count Gabrowski, claiming in 
right of his father 1 Gabrowski, as having served under the 

ene, the Secretary addressed a letter to the President-General, requ ■ 
information with respect to the succession from the officers of the French Army, 
who were admitted members el' the Society, and received the following reply : * 

Chas. Graham, I Jersey City, May 23, 1S37. 

Sir: Yours under the post-mark of May 5th, 1S37, ha and on examina 

lion. 1 mill from the minutes of the General Society, that the Society was established by the 

Army who signed the Institution, and at the same time a draft on the 

Payuiasti aonth's paj according to their several grades, who combined them- 

l' shall male 

posterity. 

There is in the original Institution, a - h. 1 now enclose a copy. | from this 

at the extei should be confined to the persons 

ated therein, for otherwise there can be no limit, and it cannot be presumed that the 

i, transmitted a medal to an} d in the pro 

not been a 1 . . .' in the Army ci Rochambeau. 

vision that the right of membership 

the pi: in the enclosed provision, and the adoption of such a rule now, might 

place tl ::re difficulties, but if otherwise, this 1 e proved, by 

J Kick to him by the Committee, for further information .is 
lo the 1. r, which no. 

.: Institution, naming the I rne and others, 

including Srmy, to whom the medal wastobe 

sent, and wh 



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the production of the medal, which was doubtless sent to ever) officei in the French Army who 
was entitled to it, or accounting for its loss. 

I know of no list of the names of the officers of the French Army, who were admitted mem 
bers of the Society, other than as contained in the enclosed provision, nor of any such prepared 
by General Knox, but if such an one was prepared at the time, it must have been confined to the 
Generals and Colonels, in Count Rochambeau's army. 

I am, Sir, very respectfully, 

Your most obedient servant, 

A MO in I IGPEN. 



1838, 



General Order. 



It lias bee. .me the painful duty of the President of the Society to announce to it- members the 
recent and lamented death ol the Honorable Major-Genera/ Stephen Van Rensselaer, an honorary 
Membei ..I this Society, and the oldest officer in rank of the militia of this State. 

Our country has given birth to few individuals, il any, whose loss will be more sincerely and 
universally regretted and deplored. As a man, lie was in disposition mild, unassuming, benevo- 
lent, and liberal in the extreme. As a patriot, his valuable services were promptly devoted to his 
Country, both in peace and war. In his civic character, the records of his Country will exhibit 
him for years presiding over the Sen. t.-. if his native State, and also over many ol their mosl 
important institutions. In his military capacity, we find him among the first in war, exchanging 
the joys and comforts of domestic life, amid a numerous, amiable and interesting offspring, for 
the toils, privations, sufferings and dangers of the tented held. 

Born in princely inheritance, his vast available income was ever disbursed with unbounded 
munificence in charities and donations to aid the moral, intellectual, physical and religious ad 
vancement of the human family, without the semblance of ostentation or unworthy selfishness. 
In friendship he was sincere, to simulation a stranger, bearing always figuratively, but truly, his 
I1..111 in hishand free from all disguise. Intimately known to the President from years of early 
boyhood, he can assert with confidence that the whole tenor of his life was an illustration of those 
virtues and graces which elevate, adorn and dignify the human character. 

The Members of the Society are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty 
days. 

Charles A. CLINTON {Secretary). MORGAN LEWIS {President). 



184.O. 

At the Anniversary meeting, it was proposed that the eldest sons or grand- 
sons "f the original members of this Society be admitted l>\ tesy, to attend 

the future meetings of the same in their absence, whereupon on motion, it was 
resolved that the adoption of the same is inexpedient. 



184 



3 



RAL ( )RDER, NovemliiT 13th 



The President with deep regret announces to the Mfembi rs ol this S01 ietj the death of their 
venerable friend Colonel John Trumbull, an original member, who departed this life on Friday- 
morning, the loth inst., after a protracted Mini 1, in the 87th year ol his ag. 



I id nil' SOC II IV OF I 111 < IM INN \ I I 

lonel Trumbull at an early period of our Revolutionary struggle, entered the Army, and 
was attached to the military famih of General Washington, whose warm regard he maintained 
'till the close of the War. I lis military life is so familiar to most of our citizens, that it would be 
superfluous to recapitulate ; sufficient to say, that in all his capacities he was a distinguished and 
meritorious man, as well as an exemplary Christian. 

The Society will be debarred the melancholy satisfaction of attending his respected remains 
to the grave, they having a! his request been removed to New I lawn, but they will weai the usual 
badge of mourning for thirtj days. 

Edward P. de Marcellin (S MORGAN 1 EWIS (J 



1844.. 



At the Anniversary meeting of the Society, Captain William Popham was 
1 I H>- rn Presidenl in the place of Colonel Morgan I ,ewis, deceased. Whereupon he 
made the following address : 

Gentlemen: The death of our late regretted President who hath descended to the grave 
full of years and full of honors, has in the course ol ordinary events cdled on me (unlit as I am) 
in take Ins plai e ami attempt 10 discharge the duties of his office. It is now sixty five years since 
1 first associated myself with the gallant band who laid the foundation of the Society which you 
now compose, 1 Societ) formed at a time and under circumstances which find no parallel in the 
annals • an) rial ion on earth. 

A: the glorious termination of the war, which forseven y< ars had been maintained against the 
must powerful of nations, against the evils of poverty, destitution", privation, and the abseni e "I 
ever) comfort which can render life desirable, with a firmness ami fortitude of which we can pro- 
duce no example, 11 became necessary to disband this gallant army, 1 1 gress unable to comply 
with their engagements, dismissed them without pa) or emolument of any kind. 

I he army then lay in the vicinity of Fishkill, Newburg, New Windsor and West Point, the 
headquarters il New Windsor, the order was issued that 1 lie army be forthwith disbanded and 
marched to their respective homes in squads, under the command of commissioned and non-com- 
' disorder, that their pay ol necessity was reduced to forty for one, 
with the promise of ample justice when the state ol the countrj would admit. This was received 
without an audible murmur. \i:> 1 a fi w d.i\s a second order was issued requiring all the offii ers 
within ils reach to meet the General at headquarters ; this order was also obeyed. After we had 
all collected, the General produced a letter, which was read by his order (if 1 mistake not) by 
Humphreys [Tiislcttei contained sentiments the most inflammatory whit h the writer could 
possibly indite. After stating the tods, the labors and patience of the army during a seven years' 
war, which had terminated in the glorious independence of their country, they were dismissed and 
sent home more like mendicants than a \it torious army, that their applications and remonstrances 
io Congress for the fulfilment of theii contract, or relief of their wants, was rejected : he ad\ ised, 
ii- called on the officers not to laj down their arms or disband their troops, but to march to Phila- 
delphia and invest the Senate Chamber, anil demand al th.e point of the bayonet what their humble 

' tation failed to obtain, then to return to the wilds of our country and establish themselves as 

a Military Colony. 

This letter, the General commented upon with his usual dignity, represented the glorious 
character the army had obtained in the eyes of ever) nation on earth, b) thi ii sui 1 essful fortitude 
and forbearance, from which a step like this would precipitate them into contempt. He urged 
them 10 persevere in the course they had pursued— that he should never lose sight of their merits 
— nor fail to use his' utmost exertion to procure for them full and perfect justice, so soon as the 
si. ue of the - ■ lunti j permitted. 

Previous to the separation of the officers, a few, with 1 Knox ami Colonel Hamilton, 

nod ind prepared 10 form [he Societ) which you now sustain — the Constitution which, when 



THE MX II IV 01 I HI CINCINNATI. 117 

drawn up, was submitted to the General, who approved and sanctioned it with his signature. It 
W as intended to perpetuate the friendship which had subsisted in times the mosl trying and 
afflii tive, in the gloomy hour of retreat as the joyful shout of victory — to transmit that friendship 
to our latest posterity — and to relieve the wants of the necessitous and indigent widow, and 
orphan children of such of our brothers as had fallen in the field of battle, for which purpose eai h 
officer agreed to pay into the hands of a treasurer to be appointed, so soon as they should be 
enabled, one month's paw to form a fund for that purpose, and I record it with pleasure, that 
Hi. droppings of that little fund has caused the heart of many a widowed mother to sing for joy. 
Of this gallant band I, through the good providence of God, have been spared as the last and only 
survivor, and while I looli round in vain for those friends of my youth, the companions of my 
early schoolboy days-who had devoted their lives to the service of their country— and breathe a 
sigh of sorrow and sympathy for their premature fate, my heart bounds with rapturous delight to 
behold so man) of their posterity, who have sprung up like the plants of the Garden of Kin, 
clustering around the standard of their country's freedom, who have sworn on her altar, that the 
glorious and untarnished standard, whii h the) have received from their fathers, they will, b) God 
help, transmit, unstained to their posterity. 

I lament to say that some of the members of this Society have expressed a wish, and urged the 
dissolution of this Institution, and .1) dividing its funds among its members. Perish the thought ! 
No! Never while I live, though I shall through the natural infirmities of extreme old age b 
denied the power of appearing in it again, I will never consent to consign to eternal oblivion a: 
Institution which has received the sanction of Washington, and been consecrated by his own 
signature. No? I consider this greatly undervalued Institution as an integral portion of the soil 
in which the glorious tree of out country's liberty was originally planted, which has taken deep 
root and whose branches have extended to the utmost boundaries of the habitable globe. 

I consider it as the Alma Mater of the greatest and most resplendent empire that the world 
has ever seen, an empire that hath sprung up from cradled infancy to the meridian of gigantic 
manhood. Where shall be found a country in which such successful enterprise is exhibited? 
Where shall we find a spot of navigable water in which the spangled banner of the United States 
has not sported in the breeze ? Where is the country of interminable extent through which an 
army of one hundred thousand men can be collected, at any point of yon sea-coast, il nei 
within forty-eight hours, to repe! the invading foe, by means of canals, railroads, and steamboat, 
erected in the short space of less than four hundred years? A country which has introduced a 
river forty miles underground, to adorn their capital city and rejoice the hearts ol her citizens. 
Nothing would be easier than to pursue this delightful subject, but I have imposed too long on 
your patience, and have exhausted myself. I have only to add, that as in the course of human 
events, I now at the close of my nim t) si 1 ond year, may not be permitted to sec you! fai es again 
in this world. 1 shall hope to meet you in that eternal world, where we shall see no more through 
a glass darkly, but face to face, where we shall know even as we are known. 



184.5. 



General Order, 21st June. 



The President, with heart filt regret, announces to the members of the Society the death of 
Major-General Andrew Jai kson, "I Tennessee, which melanchol) event took place .11 his residence 
(the Hermitage) on the 8th inst., full of years ami honors. 

In consideration of the distinguished military achievements of General Jackson, he was 
unanimously elected, an honorary member of this Society, on the 24th February, imii, 

t lur country has given birth to few individuals whose loss will be more -me, r< I) and imiver- 
versally regretted. As a patriot, hi- valuabli servi© were devoted with untiring zeal to the 
causi ol hi- country, which may with pride look back to his career a: a © mquering and triumph. mi 
chieftain'. His civil life w.i not less distinguished for its devotion and fidelity. 

The members of this Society are requested to wear the usual badge ol mourning for thirtj 
1.0 

Edward P. Marceixin {Secretary) Wll 1 1A\I POPHAM 1 /" 



1 iS 1111 S0( ['HI CINCINNATI 



1 84.6. 



\t the Anniversary meeting ii was 

thai a committee of two be appointed to ha\ >l the constitution and 

by-laws ol the Society printed, with such other documents a- the) ma\ think proper. t, . 
with an historical statement of snob of the principal incidents in the proceedings of this Society, 
as they may think advisable, and also a list of the officers and members of the Society, from its 
institution to the present perkx 



.s + s. 



11 1; Match 7th. 



The remains of the [ohn Q incy Adams will pass through this city to-morrow, 

and it iti Societ) should unite with their fellow ■ in rendering 

rs to the memory of this illustri ;man, who has been so highly dis- 

tinguished for his pre eminent talents, the purity of his character, his elevated patriotism and 
the peat in our country during his long and useful life. 

The members of the S requested to assemble at the City Hall to-morrow 

at i o'clock P. M. , with the usu mourning, for the purpose of joining in 

lich will be on that melancholy occasion, 

n \ki> P. de M vrci 1 1 in - VNTHONY LAMB 



At a meeting of the Standing Committee, on the 14th N mber, the 
Secret try stated that he had received a letter from the Trustees of the Rock- 
land Cemetery, offering the Society the gift of 400 feet superficial 1 of ground, 
for the use of the Society, together with a certificate of the gift. Whereupon 
it was 

that the Secretary be authorized to accept the same, in the name of the Society, and 
to make choice of a pi 



\: the Anniversary meeting the following was adopted : 

ol Havana, be admitted a member of this 
Society in right of his father, the • sne, but inasmuch as the latter never k 

ty, nor even contributed to its funds, it was inl contribute 

a month's pa) ' - . to the treasury of the S 

Hamilton Fish, and the isequently appointed 

had completed their labors .m.l produced the same. 

cant die,l without availing himself of the honor of bet 



ii IT 01 rHE CINCINNATI. I i <i 

( ,i eral Order, July toth. 

[t is with the most painful sensations that the Presidei - of the 

... i f, the death of General Zachary Taylor, Pr, 'dent oj th United States, and an honorarj 

membi i ol ith inst., after an ill i fivi days. 

i G n rat rayloi il this timi tppi irs to be irreparable, as from the m 

wisdom, patriotism, purity and firmness of his character ice of the Nation, 

and was well qual Il nducl it through thi torm, which is raging in our poli 

, which if not put at rest, will endanger the property and happii o inion. 

il,, members of th Societ) will reai thi i idge of mourning for the death of this 

illustrious man for thirty days. 

E D . p. de Marcellin (Secretary). ANTHONY LAMB (President). 



\i a meeting of the Standing Committee on the .4th November, it was 

■ rhat a committee, consisting of 1 'one/ Ho worFish, Dr, I 

and tin f>ei retary, b 1 fer with I fenry A. S. I >< 

lent General of thi f the Cincinnati, on the subject of preparing a h suita- 
ble inscriptions to be pn ented to th onal Washing 1 umcnt, now in course 

tion al Washington, I >. C, on the pari ol ihi Society. 



l85I. 



At the Anniversary meeting, the New York state Society adopted the fol- 
lowing : 

Whereas, l! in et) of the ' incinnati at their meeting held in the ( ity of New 

on the 7th and 5th dayi ol May, 1 1 [opted " an ordinance retail ion and 

which ha been transmitted to thi ed by the rep 

,'iittee upon the su fo I approval and ratifical 

Wkei Id ety is of opinion that the adoption of th everal 

State societies will tend to a uniform and harmonious action between the ies, will 

in some degree reston the diminished numbers of the Society, and will thi 

greal object contemplated by il 1 lei I perpetuating the friendships found 

under the pn un ol [hen 

Resolved, ["hal the New York State Societ) ■>{ the Cincinnati do hen 1 . 
the aforesaid and do adopt the same. Bi 1 inasmuch as the ap| ' ratification 

of the sai I ordinance, by all ol the State societies, is essential to il a rule for future 

in the admis ion ol mi nbers to of the Cim nati, the adi I he said 

ordinance by this Society is upon c lition, and with thi exp lion, thai 11 

idopted, each and every one of the remaining State So 
before il shall be considered 1 rule of action for 1 he g ety. 

'■■..I. I I1.1! tary do transmit an authenticated copy of thi ; preamble 

and resolution, to the Secretary-! leneral of the < lincinnati, and also to the Secretaries of 1 
the remaining Stab ; and that he do respectfully request of each of the last n 

Secretaries, to he informed of what action may have been hail in their respective societie 
the subject of the before-mentioned ordinance and report.* 



irdinance noi havinj i vatofatttht 



120 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

The following was moved by Mr. Alexander Hamilton at the same meeting, 
but was unanimously lost : 

That the |th Canon or resolution authorizing " the admission of all the lineal male descend- 
ants of [lie Revolutionary officers, and all the male lineal descendants of those Revolutionary offi- 
cer: who became members of the Cincinnati Societ) al its original organization," be re< onsidered, 
and that the same may be referred to a special committee. (See antt. page 54.) 



1852, 



Genb r \i. Order, Julv 2d. 



The Corporation of this City having decided to render appropriate honors to the memory oi 
the Honorable Henry Clay, deceased, who has been so highly distinguished for his preeminent 
talent-,, the purity and disinterestedness of his patriotism, and his uniform devotion to the great 

interests of the country during his long and useful life, and the members of our S ty, being 

di icendants "I those patriots who fought the battles of the Revolution, which secured to our 
beloved country its independence and the power to establish our glorious Union, and as this 
distinguished patriot has on all occasions, by his great talents, his energy and perseverance, 
eminently contributed to sustain and preserve that Union.it is therefore proper that we should 
unite with .Mir fellow-citizens in rendering the highest honors to his memory. 

The members or this Society will assemble at the City Hall to day, at the hour designated by 
the Committee of the Corporation in their advertisement in the papers, for the ceremonies to take 
place, for Ihe purpose of joining in the solemnities to be observed on the melancholy occasion. 

Edward 1'. dc Marcellin (Secretary). A.NTHONY LAMB (President). 



l853- 



An application for membership having been received from Theodore Gentil 
on the nab November, it was referred t<> Theodosius ('. Fowler to investigate, 
who subsequently submitted the following' report: 

At the List semi-annual meeting of the Standing Committee, on application having been 
in.nl In Mr. ["heodore Gentil lor admission to the Society in right of his grandfather, i 
Stephen Rochefontaine, it was referred to the undersigned to ascertain if the claim preferred by 
him was sufficiently valid to entitle him to be elected as a member', provided no other impediment 
existed. The undersigned finds that in St. Domingo, where the mother of the applicant was 
born, she was known to many — who subsequently on the breaking out of the Revolution in thai 
Island emigrated to this country — as the only daughter of Colonel Rochefontaine— among whom 
was BYani 1 I n pau, late father-in-law to the undersigned — John B. Cazaula, Editor of the Courier 
des Etats Unis, states that he knew Madame Gentil well and all her antecedents, and is perfectly 
convinced of her identity with the only daughter of Colonel Stephen Rochefontaine. 

Mr. Gentil has submitted to the undersigned the commission of Stephen Rochefontaine as 
a I ieut-Colonel in the Army of the Revolution, and the Diploma he received as a member of the 
Society of the Cincinnati, both signed by George Washington. 

The claim of Mr. Gentil, to be the only lineal descendant of Colonel Stephen Rochefon- 
taine. appears to the undersigned fully established. The character of Mr. (lentil as a man and 
gentleman render him in every wa\ worthy of being elected.* 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

THEODOSIUS i). FOWLER. 



' \h 1 .mini was admitted en the following 4th July. 



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fHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. I 2 i 

l8 5 + . 

The following - was adopted al the Anniversary meeting : 

Whereas, The General Society of the Cincinnati, at their triennial meeting held in Balti- 
more on the 17th day of May, 1854, adopted the three following resolutions, viz. : 

I. Resolved, That each Slate Society shall have the full right and power to regulate the 
admission of members, both as to qualifications of members and the terms ol admi ion : 
Provided, That admission be confined to the male descendants of original members or oi thosi 
who are now members (including collateral branches as contemplated by the original constitu- 
tion), or to the male descendants of such officers of the army 01 navj as ma) havi bei n entitled 
to admission, but who failed to avail themselves thereof within the time limited by the constitu- 
tion, or the male descendants of such officers of the army or navy of the Revolution as ma) haw 
resigned with honor or left the service with reputation, or to the male 1 ollateral relatives of am' 
officer who died in service « ithout leaving issue, 

II. Resolved, That the male descendants of those who were members of State Societiei 
which have been dissolved may be admitted into existing Societies upon such terms as those 
Societies think proper to prescribe 

III. Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be proposed to the several state So. ieties and 
their assent bi requested thereto, and upon such assent being given by each of the remaining 
Societies, the Secretary-General shall issue notice thereol to each Society, and thereupon the --aid 
resolutions shall become operative, and each Stale Society shall beat liberty to acl upon the 
power given therein-. 

Now-, therefore, lie it 

Resolved. That the assent of the New York Stale Societ) of the Cini innati be anil the same- 
is hereb) given to the lirst and second of the- -.aid resolutions. 

>. That if the assent oi each oi the oi her remaining Societies be given to the -aid 
tions, then, upon notice being i sued b) the Secretary-General as contemplated in the third 
of the said resolutions, the said lirst and second resolutions shall become and be deemed opera 
tiveasapart of the constitution of this Society, and this Society shall thereafter I- at libert) 
to act upon the power given thereby in such manner as shall lure-after be determined. 

Resolved, That the Secretar) ->l this Society forward a copy of the foregoing preamble and 
resolutions, duly attested, to the Secretary-General, and also to each ol the remaining -State 
1 ies. 

The following resolution was also adopted at the same meeting : 

Resolved, That in case the assent of each of the remaining State Societies lie given to the 
resolutions respecting the succession and admission .if members, which were idopted .11 the last 
meeting of the General Societ) (in May, 1*54) ami by them proposed to the several State- 
Societies, the Standing Committee be directed to report to the Societ) at il next meeting, such 

rules and regulations as they may think proper to recommend for the admissi ,1 members 

under the power given by the said resolutions. 

General Order, December 6th. 

I he President, with unfeigned sorrow, announces to the Society the death of the vener- 
able Captain Robert Unmet, Jr., of Little Britain, Orange County, \ Y ,a membei of the 
Society, who, it is believed, was the only survivor of the commissioned officers of the Arm) oi 
the Revolution. . 

M. died at his residence on the 29th November. He was bom Z2d February, 1762, and 
was at his death ninety-two year ol age. Ca tain Bumel was appointed a lieutenant in the 
Artilhi 1 orp commanded by Colonel Lamb, when nineteen peat ol ige. He was esteemed as 
a brave and efficient officer, and when the American Army man lied into N T l w York al the i 



[22 I M I i " II IV I IF THE CIXi [NNATI. 

tion of i In- Mi\ in the British i ps he had the honor ol commanding the American guard 

which relieved the British real guard stationed in the Bowery, 

The spirit ol patriotism which animated him at the age of nineteen appeared to burn in 
his bosom when over ninety. He was invited to come to this cit) to unite with the Society and 

the public auth • i to celebrate tin birtluta) ol Getti al Washington on the 22d February, 

i i, (which was intended to be celebrated with unusual splendor for the purposi ol bringing 
into promincnl view the sentiments of that illustrious patriot in relation to the pre; rva 

tin l , which appeared to have been forgotten or disregarded i>\ numbers ol peopli who 

bokll) advocate its dissolution) and his opinion was asked on the subject. He stated thai Ins 
i:-i and inlirmitii wen such that ii was impossible lor him to attend the celebration ; thai I"' 
was always in favoi ol su raining thi Union, and was oppose,! to that spirit ol discord which 
tries to exciti oni portion ol the Union againsl another, and that he had always been an advocate 
loi the Union, a firm supporter ol the C6nstitution in .ill its compromises, had never coun- 
tenanced by his vote 01 influence any ol the fanatii isms of the day, b) whatevei nami the) were 
called ih.' In Soil' 01 the "higher power" part) who denounced the Constitution as a 
gross violation ol the law ;ol God and the rights ol nature ; and lu- enjoined ii upon the members 
of the Cincinnati, of which he li.nl o long been i member, to supporl the Union .mil adhere to 
i. i onstitution so long as there is a member ol the Societj in existence. 

Ilir members ol the Societj "ill wear the usual badge of mourning lor thirty days as a 
testimon) ol respect to the memor) ol theii venerable associate, 

Edward I', m Marcellin (■ ANTHONi LAMB (President). 



1855. 



\i the Anniversary meeting Mr. Hamilton offered the following, which was 
adopted : 

Resolved, fhal the festive celebrations ol il"- Society I"' hereafter held on the 25th ol 
Novi ml„ 1 : 1 I \.i, ii 11 ion I laj 



1856. 

On the |th nf fitly, certain Rules and Regulations with regard to the qualifi- 
cations .mil admissions ui members into the New York State Society were pre- 
sented ami referred to the Standing Committee.f 



1857. 



On the 4th of July, the Rules ami Regulations, with regard to the qualifi- 
cations ami admission of members into tin- New York State- Society, having 
been recommended by the Standing Committee, were adopted as follows : 



P01 .. \ ■ 1 1 1 v ■ 11 the S01 id v continued to cell brate 1 liis occa ion. 

1 lay, 18 ;6. (See ,.->.-.',', pa - 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 123 

I. N<> person shall be admitted a membci ol th< S tj (whatevei maj be his relation to an original, 01 

meml * thi S \ .< unli ■ ■ hi bi ol good mora] charactei and reputation, and be tin thi languagi ol thi 

original 1 onstitution,) by the Societj "judged worthy of becoming its supportei and n ber." 

II. None I mi males, oi full agi . hall bi admitted ' mbi rship ; bul 1 Ligibilitj to membi 1 ihip in ucccssion, 

. upon a minor, hall I" deemed vested in such minor, but the use thereof shall remain in abcyj 

mil il thi - ■ ■ bi 

III. Lineal succession to membership shall be according to the rules oi inheritance al the 1 law, unless 

otherwise expresslj provided, subject in all cases to the provisions ol thi isi Rule above. And the oil >l the 

Vrmy ol the Revolution, who wa an Ori inal Member, hall bi deemed and taken as the "propositus" from 
whom succession shall be derived. 

fn cases where, 1 'ding to the rules of thi 1 "ihmh.ii law, the inheritani - would di ■ I to two 01 mi n pi 1 m 

(jointly) the Society may admit eithei of them, as the one entitled in lineal succession ; oi maj allow the bcncfii ol 
1 in- right "i admission without pay, to be apportioned an g .ill oi 31 veral ol the said pi 

IV. All male descendants ol officei ol tin Revolutionary Army 01 Navy, who were Original Member: ol Lhi 
'■ ety, and also all male descendants ol all persons who have been, or now are, oi hereaftei may become 

Member of this State ! ety, shall bi eligibli as Members thereof, and if judged worthy, may be admitted upon 

1 he following terms, viz. : Thi di cendanl entitled in lineal success ac ling to Rule III.) hall, il 

worthy, be admitt d vvithoul paymi nt, in right ol the payment made by his ancestor, Every othci descendant who 
may be judged wo tl \ ol admission, shall at the time ol signing the roll, and bi fore talcing his seal as a Member, 

paj into the lYeasurj ol the Society a sum equal to one month's pay of the Officer, or I triginal Membei from wl 

he claims descent, or in whose right he claims membership, according i<> the rank of such Officei al the time he 
signed the rolls of the Society, provided that such sum shall in no ca* bi 1 ■ than levcnty-five dollars. 

\ T . [f any member of this State Society have died, or shall hereafter die, leaving no descendant, the S01 ■ 

may. upon the applical 1 -"i 1 the partii , select from among his brothers or nephews some one wl 1 

they may judge woi thy to be a membei ol thi Societj and the p rs 1 ected shall be entitled to succi ■ 

right ol such deceasi d membei ; but no collateral relative othci Mian a 1 her 01 nephew, shall be admitted in 

m to a member who shall have di n . i. lams Provided however, that the descendan ol 

anj such brothei 01 nephew who hall havi been admitted, maj uo d to him. 

V I ["he male di si 1 mi. mis, < > 1" full age, of the < Iriginal Members of any ol the State So< ietics whii h ho 1 l 

dissolved, and also tin male descendants residing in the State ol New York ol thi Oi iginal Members ol any State 
Society, may be admitted into this Society (if judged worthy), upon thi payment into the LY Lsury ol a um cqu ! 

in two months' pay in the Continental Army, of the < Original Membei- from wl 1 the) claim descent, a ding to 

the rank ol such Original Member, at the time he signed the rolls of the Society ol which he wasa member, 
provided that such sum shall in no case be less oni hundred and fifty dollars. 

v 1 1 No person shall beadmitted amembei ol thisSociety whose fathei 01 paternal grandfather adhered 
oi i>ok protection from the Enemy during the war of the Revolution. 

VIII. I'he vote of the Societj admitting a new 1 1" r, shall not be deemed to constitute th< person ballotted 

for, a Member, until he shall have subsi ribed thi roll ol the Society, .m-i have 1 omplied with the terms requi ■ d ■ 
any rule igulat bj -lav. , oi order of thi S01 

I \. All money paid into thi Cn 1 urj bj persoi 1 admitted, in pursuam e ol tin forcg gruli 1 and regulation , 

shall be considered as pan ol the funds or prim ipal mom j belonging to the Society, and -.hall be invested in the 
name of thi I'rusti > pnn ided by 1 hi bj law s, 

V [*he diplomi tificati which Members are ci d, by virtue ol the XIV , By-law, (adopti .1 in Vlay, 

1851), to rei eive upon theii admission, shall be in the following form : 

Sta 1 1 oi New -York. 
SOCIETY OF I HI. ( [NCINNATI, 

Be 1 1 Known, Thai A, 1: , the lineal 1 of I lescendant of C. D.,) who was a in the 

Regiment ol New Vork Infantry, (setting forth the rank ol the officei a »ed to the Rolls ol tin 

Societj 1. and .n, Ori inal Member ol the _ ! ty of thcCin. nnati, is (by vii 1 

t resolution of the New \ ■ 1 ati, passed on the — dayol . 1 a Mcinl 1 

1,11 1 ty of theCi m I by the Officers of the \ can Vrmy of the Revolution al the period ol il 1 

dissolution in 1783, as well to commemorate the great event which gavi Independence to the i nited S tl ol 
America, as for the purpi e of inculcating the duty ol laying down in peace, arms assumed in the public di 

ind of uniting in act of brother! a on and bonds ol perpetual friendship, thi Members constituting thi ■ 

In witness whereof, i ie New 1 ork State So, iety oj the I incinnaii :,,...., ■■ .,.-.:.■. . . 

•rsigned by their Secretary the day of — in thy 

■■/ one thousand eight hundred , md 0/ the independence oj tin United Stat 

. \ merica the 

PRBSID] N 1 

lEI ■ 1 

V' 1 he adopt ion of the f B ties, it wa ■ 

K Resolved^ That the 4th of the said Rules, and much 1 ta ty contemplati d I i 

than one descendant of any Oi nal Member (to represent such t Iriginal Membei al the sam b n 

1 '"' ll " P 1 '""' "' thn 1 ,1 . n d qo lonj 1 r, unless continu. d 01 n 1 ■ wi d 1 

' " '" afu - r the expiratii n ol the said 1 , But the 1 xpiratioo ol th< said Ruli hall ii waj 

■'"''' ' tne "Khl ol an tdmittcd in p . ! Ruli s d ig thi i il ■ 



I UK SOCIETY OF I III' CINCINNATI. 



.S 5 8. 

The following schedule, taken from the War Department, of the monthly 
pa} ni Officers of the Revolution, was adopted at the Anniversary meeting on 
the 5th of July, as a criterion for the Society's use : 

$H'i> to $iSo Major-General, 

too 00. Secretary to the General. 

125 00, Brigadiers and Adjutant-General, 

too 00. Commissary Generals and Paymaster General. 

i"" 00. 1 'olonels of Artillery. 
93 75. " •' Cavalry. 

75 00 " " infantry. 

I > I ieutenanl •( lolonels. 

90 00. I 'ield Commissary of Military Stores. 

s " 00 Quartermasters, Deputy Commissary and Chief Engineei 

62 (5. Majors ol VrtiUery , 
6245. " ' 

o 00. " " fnfantrj . 

so 00. Captains of Artillery. 
50 00. " " ( lavalry. 

\o 00 " " Infantry. 

; ; jo " and I ieutenants oi Artillery. 

16 60 " Infantry, Ensigns ''1 1 01 m 

)0 00 Regimental Paymasters and Clothiers (additional). 

75 00. Chaplains. 

5>> 00. Surgeons. 
46 00 " Mate. 

Director of the Hospital Department. 

1 leputj l'ln sician " 

).' 00 Apothecary and Purveyoi ol the Hospital Department 

00 00. Surgeons. 

<»> 00. 1 iaptains in the Navy. 

[O 00 I ieuti uants '' " 



Generai Order, A Ibany, March 6th. 

With deep sorrow the President announces the death of Matthew C. Perry, a Post Captain 
in the .V,/rT, and 1111 honorary mi mbei "I the Cincinnati. 

Withoul enumerating the various services ol this distinguished man, ii is enough to sa) thai 
thej stand conspicuous in tin naval historj <>i our country, 

Commotion Perrj always sustained the character ol .m honorable ami upright man. Me was 
a useful i in en and an ornami nl i" his profession. I lis death will be mourned bj all who enjoyed 
his personal acquaintance, regretted by his professional as ocia*tes, and acknowledged b) all as a 
severe I' iss ti 1 the counti j 

In testimony of our.respecl for his memory, the insignia will In 1 in mourning fur thirty days 
Alexander B Phompson {Secretary). RICHARD VARICK DE WITT {Acting President). 



Generai Order, New York, June 30th. 

The public ceremonies on the occasion of the removal "I the remains ol ex-President Monroe 



I III 101 II IV OF I III CINCINNATI. I 25 

to Virginia, will take pi 1 Friday, July 2d, under thi direction oi the Special Committei ol 

1 1 i ommon ' !oum il. 

Mr. Monroe was a meml I the Virginia State Society, He joined thi Armyol thi Revolu- 
tion in 1 7 7' >, . 1 -~ :> volunteer, and brought with him from Virginia a company oi irtillery, which hi 
raised and commanded. At thi battle ol rrcnton Captain, afterwards Colonel Monroe, 

distinguished himsell He received a severe w ! through the bn 1st, I", whii h he was di abli d 

for nearl) ayear, After liis recover) hi was appointed Aide de Camp to Major-General Lord 

Stirling, and continued on his stafl foi time. He was subsequently elected a member ol thi 

Continental Congress, and was a member in [783, when General Washington resigned his com- 
in that body. 

After the war Colonel Monroe was appointed Minister to France, and ubserjuentlj Secretarj 
<if State and Secretary of War. He was elected President "I the United States, \\u March, [817, 
and held thai high office fot two terms. 

Mr. Monroe died in this cit) on the |tli July, 183] 

Members "f the Cincinnati will take the place which may be assigned them al the obsequies, 
b) the Special Committee of the Common Council. 

The insignia will be in mourning until the 51I1 of July. 
Alex. B. Thompson (Secret RICHARD VARICK DE WITT | Icting President). 



VI the special meeting of the Soi iet) held on Evacuation Day of tins year, 
at the Everett House, the Secretary presented a communication from Mr, 
Thomas I.. Servoss, enclosing a letter addressed to the Baron Steuben, Presi- 
dent hi the V Y. State Society of the Cincinnati, by John Pintard, Sagamore 
hi the St. Tammany Society or Columbian Order, as follows : 

Sir: In behalf of the Societj of St. Tammany or the Columbian Order, I have thi honoi to 
present you with a ( 'alamut of peace, a: a pledge of that friendship which they wish to 1 ultivate 
with the New York State Society of the Cincinnati 

Established upon national principles, the Columbi tn ( Irdi 1 ci Ii 1 vour Society as brothers, 

with whom they desire to promote a mutual interchange of civilities. As the junioi establishmi nt, 

1 'dingly makes the first advances, and it rests with you to determine how far ii will be agrei 

abl in 1 ultivate a friendly intercourse between the two Socii tii 

Thai every 1 rue sun .,1 Itmerica may be connected by oni bright chain ol friendship, and evet 

smoke thi Calumut of pea© in the sunshine of prosperity, and undei th protection of thi Great 

Spirit of freedom, is the earnest prayer of our Society, in whose behall I have thi honoi to sub 

scribe myself your friend and well-wisher, 

JOHN PINTARD (Sagamor I 
v w York, 1 ;iii May, 1790. 

Whereupon, on motion, it was 

Resolved, That the thanks "l the Society be presented to Mr. Servoss, that Mr Pintard's 

letter be placed on the archives, and thai the Acting President be requested to write Mr. - 

in acknowledgmi nl ol the donation. 



l86l. 

Ai the meeting ol the Standing Committee on May 21st, on motion of Mr. 
Hoffman, the following resolutions were adopted, and ordered to be entered 
upon the book oi m tes ol the Society: 



126 THE SOCIETY OF THE ( [NCINN \ I I 

Whereas, Our fathers founded the Society of the Cincinnati t<> the intent that their children 
should always preserve that love of country and loyalty to its government which they held to be 
the first duly of patriots and of soldiers ; and 

Whereas, They then declared it to be their unalterable determination to promote and cherish 
ii the respective States that union and national honor, 50 essentially necessary to their hap- 
piness and to the future dignity of the American empire ; and 

The Government they founded on these eternal principles is now threatened by 
those who resist its authority and defy its laws; therefore 

That, as members of the Society of the Cincinnati, it is our sacred duty to guard 
with vigilance the inheritance we have received from our fathers, and to transmit it to our children 
unimpaired anil inviolate. 

Resolved, That we do utterly denv the right of secession, and hold that no State can right- 
fully withdraw from that union of which it forms a part. 

Resolved, That the first duty of a soldier is to the Government he has sworn to support, and 
that we do therefore utterly condemn the conduct of those officers who have violated their oaths, 
and deserted their flag, and hold them to be unworthy successors to the heroes of the Revo- 
lutii in. 

That it is our duty, as citizens .if the United States, to support its Government, t" 
enforce its authority, to uphold its laws, and to this sacred duty we, in the spirit .it our fathers, 
and in their immortal words, do hereby pledge our lives and fortunes and our sacred honor. 



It was also on motion 

'Ived, That a committee he appoiirted to consider and report whether, in their opinion, it 
is desirable tliat the Society should raise a regiment of infantry, for the defence of the Govern- 
ment, and ii thi v shall be of opinion that it is so desirable, to prepare and report to the Standing 
Committee a plan regiment. 

It was ordered that the committee consist of the president (Mr. Fish) and two members of 
imittee (Mr Wickham Hoffman and Mr. Earl Douglas). 



On tlic following 4th July the Committee, to whom it was referred to con- 
sider the propriety of raising a regiment of infantry, to be offered to the Presi 
dent of tlie United States for the defence of the Government, beg leave to 

Report, That they have not considered it desirable to take any active steps in the matter, 
n the meeting of tlie General Society. 



The Committee was thereupon discharged. 



1862. 

At the Anniversary meeting; the following was adopted: 

Whereas, A meeting of the Genera] Society of the Cincinnati is appointed to be held in this 
city on the second Wednesday in May, 1S63, therefore 

l'h. u an entertainment be provided by this S rig their sitting, and that a 

Committee of three members be appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and to transmit 
tlie in vital inn, in the name oi . , to the officers and delegates of the General Society, and 

10m for their meeting, and that the treasurer pay the expenses of the same, on 
the certificate of the approval of the Committee of Arrangements, namely. I>r. Torrey, M: 1 
ham and Mr. Earl Douglas. 



I 111 • I \ OF THE CINCINNATI. 127 



.865. 



( ll \l k \l. ( >RDER, Apnl 22d. 



The members of the Society are requested to join in the funeral procession of the late 
President of the United States. The sons of those who perilled their lives to found a Nation, 
mourn the loss of one who perished in the firm maintainance of that Nation's existence, But 
while they mourn the martyr, they had the assurance that a Nation's name and a Nation's 
honor, strike deep their roots in the soil moistened by the martyr's blood. 

The blood of Lincoln is shed, in the completion of the work for which the blond of Wash- 
ington was freely risked. 

The members of the Society will assemble on Tuesday next at such time and plai e, and will 
take such position in the line ol the procession, as shall be designated by the authorities in 
charge of the arrangements. They are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning lot 
thirty days, and also to wear, in the procession, their order properly draped. 

Marinus Willett {Secretary). HAMILTON FISH {President). 



At the Anniversary meeting the following was 

Resolved, That this Society avail itself of the first opportunity since tin 11 sat ination of the 
late President of the United States, to record its profound abhorrence of the foul crime thai 
depi ived the Nation of its chosen head, and to perpetuate its apprei iation ol the noble virtutes, 
the unflinching honesty, the stem simplicity, the devoted adherence to principle, and the com- 
prehensive philanthropy of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr President of the United Mates. 

Resolved, That we recognize assassination and individual murder as following naturally and 
logically in the train of a causeless and unprincipled revolt against a benign, gentle, and self- 
imposed, Government — a revolt instigated by lust, jealousy, and sectional prejudice — a revolt 
aiming at the enslavement and oppression of a race, and the overthrow of a Constitutional 
(Government — a revolt directed and led on by the unholy ambition of unprincipled leaders, mis- 
guiding a confiding and generous constituency — a revolt marked in its conduct by a cruelly and 

ferocity, unknown to Christian and civilized nations, by atreatment ol pi ers taken in war, 

revolting to every feeling and sense of humanity, and which will forevei as ociate the nanus of 
Andersonville, Belle Isle, the Libby Prison, nil the inhuman authors and permitters oi the 
enormities there committed, with the most atrocious cruelties, that disgrace the darkest pages 
of history. 

Resolved, That holding treason to be the height of crime, we believe that justice to the 
living and to the dead — to the vindication of right — to the stability of government — and to the 
future peace of the nation requires stern and exemplary punishment to lie awarded to the prime 
instigators and leaders of the late rebellion, while we hail with delight, the far-reaching am 
which the wise councils of the present enlightened head of the nation, has proclaimed to those 
who had been drawn into the schemes, of designing traitors and ambitious and unprincipled 
leaders. 

Resolved, That after lour years of strife, we hail with delight the return of peace, the con 
tinned integrity of the Union, the preservation of the Constitution, and the train ol blessings 
and privilege's which it secures — that forgetting the animosities of thi would 

remember only the great lessons which its history teaches —We turn with joy and pride to the 
cherished recollections of the years thai preceded it — and open our anus to embrace with sincere 

m, broth rs returning to 1 n n ol a common parentage, and to the recognition 

of the laws, the Constitution and the Union, secured to them and to us by the valor, and cem nted 
by the blood of a common ancestry. 

Resolved, That we ten ! i lo ea h and ever) ol th survivi ■ 1 e So th Cincin- 

nati, our cordial congratulations, on the day designated by its founders lor the common anniver- 



128 I III si hi |. I ' OB ("HE CINCINNATI. 

.in and ive dcsin to express to each >>! them, the assurances of friendship, affection, and 
brother!) love, and to record anew, our subscription to the principles, which their fathers and 

i , declared to be immutable and to form the basis ol oui Society. We therefore declare, thai we 

will cherish an incessant attention, to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties ol human 
nature, foi which our fathers fought and bled, and without which the high rank o I a rational 
being is a curse instead of a blessing, and an unalterable determination to promote and cherish 
between the respective States, thai union and national honor, so essentially necessary, to theii 
happim ss and to the dignity "I the American Empire. 

Generai ( >k in r, February 1 4th. 

I In' President announces with deep regrel to the Society, tin- death of their venerable and 
beloved associate Philip Schuyler al hi^ residence in Pclham, Westchester County, on Sunday 
the 121I1 inst., in the seventy-seventh year of his age. Mr Schuyler entered the Society in 
|ulj 1811, in right "I his grandfather, the illustrious A/aj'01 Gen ■■■' Schuylei ol the Amu ol 
ih. Revolution He filled various positions, both under the State and National Government, 
and in ever) relation of life exhibited the same earnest, just, sincere and generous charactei ; 
warm in his friendships and affectionate in a remarkable degree in his domestic relations, he had 
endeared to himself .1 large number of devoted friends, who will long cherish the memor) ol his 

n .1 mil hi-, virtues. 

The members of t h> Societj are requested to attend his funeral, wearing the usual badge of 
mourning, mi Wednesday the 15th inst., al one o'clock P. M .. at Chrisl Church, Pelham, by 
order of 

M mum , W11 111 1 1 S II Will TON I [SI] [/■> ndenl). 



[867. 

Mr. William Irving Graham, the Secretary, at the meeting of the Standing 
Committee, on November 25th, read a letter from the Secretary of the Maryland 
State Society, announcing that that Society had adopted a Rule that anj "exist- 
ing members had the right to name one gentleman of the blood of an original 
member, and that said nominee, if elected, shall enjoy all the rights of the tnsti- 
tution, except voting on any amendment to the Constitution," and also stating 
that the Annual Meeting of the Maryland Society will hereafter be held on the 
22d day ui February. 



187. . 



Generai Ordi r, February 1 5th. 

The Society will meet al Delmonico's, i.|ih Street and 5th Avenue, on Wednesdaj Evening, 
1'Vbnun 22cl, al 8 o'i lo< k for the purpose ol i < li brating the i (9th Annivi rsai yol \\ ashington's 
Birthdaj \n appropriate address will be delivered b) the Chaplain, the Re> Mancius S. 
Mutton, D.D. 

\\ m [r\ iv. Gr vham (J HAMILTON FISH (P 

\i the Anniversary meeting of this year it was 

.' 1 f, lli. 11 .1 Committee be appointed with powei to call .1 meeting ol the Society on the 
25th ni Novi mbi 1 . and on the 22d day of February, and to provide a suitable collation, the same 
to bi continued, annually, during the pleasure of the Soci< i\ . 



I HI. SOCIETY OF THE CINCINN ITI. 129 

\i .1 mi, 1 m- of [he Standing; Committee, May 22, it was 

R, solved, Thai the [nstitution of ibis Society, together with abstracts of the proceeding 1 >i 
the ( leneral Society and ol thi New York State Society down to thepresenl time, also ;i full lisl "i 
the members of this Society, together with the revised By-Laws, !»■ printed to the numbei ol 
live hundred copies, under the direction of the Secretary. 

At thr Anniversary meeting it was 

Resolved, That John Cochrane, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., PieireVan Cortlandt, John 
Schuyler, and the Secretary, Marinus Willett, be appointed a Committee on thi Centem 
bration to be held at Philadelphia in 1876. 



I87+. 

At the Anniversary meeting of this year the following gentlemen were 
appointed a Committee of Arrangements, for the triennial meeting* of the Gen- 
eral Society, to be hold in New York uth May, [875, namely, John W. Greaton, 
Alexander Hamilton, fr., and General John Cochrane. 



1875. 

At the Anniversary meeting, held on the 5th of July, on motion of Mr. 
Walton White Evans, the following was adopted : 

Resolved, That John Schuyler, Alexandei Hamilton, Jr., William H. Crosby, and the Secre- 
tary, Marinus Willett, be a Committee to whom all applications for membership be referred, who 
shall report to the Standing Committee on the same ; and further 

Resolved, Thai applications now in the hands ol thi several < iommittees and nol acted on, be 
referred to the said Committee 



The securities ol the Society wire ordered at this meeting to be assigned and 
stand in the names of the following Trustees, viz.: Hamilton Fish, William S. 
Popham, and William II. Crosby, their survivors, successors, 01 assigns. 

\' the meeting of the Standing Committee on 3d of November, General 
Cochrane and Mr. Schuyler were appointed a Committee ol Vrrangements for 
the annual dinner. 



* rhe meetings, collations, and banquet wer< held tl Deln ico , in 14th i riagi ivcn i led 

''' S the afternoons nvcy tl 1 hi different points of i t on Manhattan Island. Mr. Hamil- 

'"" ' •■■ ' "'' rl cm, ,1 ii, ,,. 0, , dinnei al the Union 1 lub 11 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



l8 7 6. 



At the Anniversary meeting of this year Mr. Alexander H. Hammond pre- 
sented the Society with a very finely executed oil painting of his father, Abijah 
Hammond, a Lieutenant in the 2d Artillery, in full uniform, wearing the Order 
of the Cincinnati on his left breast. 



General Cochrane submitted the report of the Centennial Committee, which 
was .is follows : 

" That, in compliance with the duties devolved upon them by their, appointment, they in 
due time opened a correspondence with each of the six existing State Societies upon the subject 
of the time, place and manner of their celebrating the Centennial Year of the Republic ; that 
each of the State Societies having consented to be governed by whatever their delegates at their 
meeting in Philadelphia — on 1 'he first of June, 1876 should decide, it was then and there deter- 
mined that there should be a social reunion of an informal character of the several Slate Societies 
in Philadelphia, on the 19th of October, 1876, the anniversary of the surrender, in [781, ol 
Cornwallis to the united armies of France and the United States of America." 

Your Committee further report that the reunion of the several State Societies took place in 
1 ordance with the recommendation of their delegates at Philadelphia on the iSth and 19th of 
I ■ tober, 1876, and that all the State Societies, with the exception of South Carolina, were repre- 
sented on the occasion and participated therein — also that at an informal meeting held on that 
occasion the following was adopted — 

Whereas, We, the descendants of officers of the Revolutionary Army, have met in this city 
of Philadelphia, on the occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the nation ; and, 

Whereas, It is right and proper that we should give expression to our feelings, on this deeply 
interesting occasion ; therefore, 

Resolved, That we hail with feelings of unmingled satisfaction the evidences we see around 
us of the wonderful progress our country has made in the great march of development and 
improvement. 

Resolved, That the great success which has attended the Centennial Exposition of the 
country, to which all the nations of the earth have contributed of their material resources, should 
be a source of great pride to all the citizens of the Republic, and that we, in common with them, 
rejoice in the evidence thus afforded of the high position our country has assumed amongst the 
nations of the world. 

Resolved, That we will never cease to cherish with feelings of veneration and respect the 
memory of the great men who founded this Society, and who, by their efforts and sacrifices in the 
cause of freedom, started our country on the career which has produced such grand results. 

Resolved, That we will give our best efforts to the perpetuation of this Society, forming as 
it does a link between the present and the past, and calculated as it is to foster a spirit of true 
patriotism and love of country, and to promote feelings of veneration for the great men and the 
gi . .11 di eds of the past. 

Resolved, That we congratulate the managers and officers ol the Centennial Exposition on 
the very capable manner in which they have conducted ils affairs, and on the great success which 
has attended their efforts. 

The members were, upon invitation from Genera/ Hawley, the President of 
the Exposition, received at the entrance on the 19th of October, and marched 
in procession into the grounds and up to the J udges' Hall, where the Expo- 
sition Committee received them, and, after a few happy words of welcome, 
conducted them to the various places of interest. In the evening the members 



I ill SOCIETY in I III CINCINNATI. 13] 



were entertained with a very elaborate and brilliant banquet at the Reform 
Club-House, in Chestnut Street, given by the Hon. George W. Harris, Sea 
General and President of the Pennsylvania State Society. 



1877. 

The Committee charged with the dutj ol ascertaining and verifying the 
names of the original members of the New York Stai<- Society, reported on the 
lili i't July that they had succeeded in finding the original Roll of the New 
\i>rk Stati Society, which had been lost or missing from the archives since the 
year [850. It was discovered in an < »l< I trunk of papers in Illinois in the 
possession of a married daughter of a former Secretary. 



1878. 



An application tor membership h iving been presented in 1875 to the Society 
by Dr. T. Mat lack Cheeseman, M. D.; asking the right of admission from his 
grandfather's brother, who was killed with Montgomery in Canada, the Com- 
mittee reported that under the institution the right of representation in the 
Society was only extended to tin "offspring of those who died in the servii 1 ," 
and as Dr. Cheeseman was not such offspring, his application could not be 
entertained. Upon investigation it appeared Dr. Cheeseman subsequently 
made application to be admitted in the New Jersey State Society, where he 
was, on the following 4th of July, admitted. The New Vork State Society 
then appealed to tin- General Society, which met in May, 1.S7.X. at Philadelphia, 
for a decision whether the action of the New Jersey State Society should be 
sustained. The matter was referred by them to the Committee on By-Laws for 
investigation. (This Committee has not as yet made their report.) 



1879. 

At the Standing Committee meeting held on the 9th of May, General fohn 
Cochrane was added to tin- Committee on applications in the place of the 
Secretary, Mr. Willett, who had resigned. 

The following preamble and resolution was adopted at the Annual Meeting: 

Whereas, Certain portions "I the "Rules and Regulations, " adopted 4th July, 1857, are 

alreadj incorporated in the Institution and By-Laws of the Societ) . and 

/<'//. , Othei en: 1 i ;.. ami havi 1 pired by limitation ; therefore be it 

Resolved, That such ol these " Rules and Regulations' coi tent with the Institution .ma 

By-] .aws <>f the Society b rporated in the By-1 .aws, and all the remaining be rescinded. 



1 HI SOI n 1 \ OF I Ml CINCINNATI. 
[880. 

BY-LAWS 

OF nil' 

NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF ['HE CINCINNAT 



1 'uly, 1 S79. A'. . ommtiiA 
19, [S79. .-la . • s ' • ■.. 18S0. 



I. The officers of the Society shall consist of .1 President, Vice-President, 
Secretary, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer, each of whom shall in virtue of 
liis office be .1 member of the Standing Committee. 

II. The Societ) shall hold an Annual Meeting in the City of New York, on 
the Fourth of July in each year, unless that Jay fall on Sunday, in which . ase 
the Vnnual Meeting shall be held on the following daw Extraordinary meet- 
ings may be called by tl ent or, in case of his death, absence from the 
State, or inability to act, by the \ i< e President. Public notice of all meetings 
of the Society shall be given in at least two daily newspapers published in the 
City of New York, 1\ advertisement, for two days preceding the day ol 
meeting. 

III. The President shall preside at all meetings ol the S01 ietj if he be pres 
ent, but if absent the \ a President shall preside; if both be absent the meet 
ing may appoint a Chairman f>ro tern. 

[V. rhe presence ol at least fifteen members shall be necessarj forthe 
transaction of any business which may authorize or involve the expenditure of 
., the admission of new members, or the election ol Honorary Mem- 
Nine shall constitute a quorum for all other purposes, but no business 
shall be transacted at an extraordinary meeting which shall authorize or lead to 
xpenditure of money, nor shall any appropriation of money be made at 
such meeting. 

\. ilk ; ol '. ; :i Society shall be elected at the Annual Meeting in each 

year ; at which tune there shall also be elected a committee of eight members 
who. together with the of the Society, shall constitute the Standing 

Committee. Phere shall also be elected, at the same time, five delegates, to 
represent the Society in any meeting of the General Society which may be held 
during the ensuing year. 

V I. The election of the officers oi the Society, including the members oi the 

Standing Committee and delegates to the General Society, shall be decided by 

. a\u\ the persons having the largest number of votes cast for the respei 

- shall be elected. The vote upon the admission of new members, 

and the election of llonoran Members, shall also in all cases be taken by 

ballot; and the affirmative votes ol two-thirds of the members present and 



[•HE SOCIETY OF THE CINC1 VI I 

votjng shall be necessary for the admission ol a new member, and of three- 
fourths of those prese'nl and voting for the election ol an Honorar) Member. 

VII. 1 1 shall be the duty ol thi landing Committei to taki can ol the 
general concerns of the Society, a well as ol -ill matters specially committed to 
them by the Soi iety. They shall animal])' appoint a sub i ommittee ol thn 

their ow imber to examine thi Treasurer's accounts and to i eporl 

thereon to the Society al its Annual Meeting They shall examine and audil 

all bills and claims againsl thi S ty, and shall authorize the payment '.I whal 

the) shall deem ju t demand . They shall, from the funds of the So 

afford such relief to the mi mbi i 01 thi famil Ii I members, who maj 

m i in ii judgment be proper objects for the beneficence ol the Society, in such 
sums and at such times as they shall think proper. They shall granl warrant 
upon the Treasurer for all claims which they shall audit and pass and for all 
payments which they shall authorize; but the aggregate of the expenditures 
authorized by the Committee to be paid, including all im distributed in aid 
oi members 01 theii families, in any one year, shall not exceed th< annual 
in' ome for the year arising from thi produi ti e permanent funds of the So< iety. 
The Committee shall have power, from timi o time, with the concurrenci ol 
the Trustei i referred to in the eleventh of thi ;i B) Laws, or a majoril ol 
them, 01 ol the survivors or survivor of them, from time to time, to call in 

of the moneys belonging to the Society, and to invi ■ ■ mi and to. i hange 
the investmenl ol thi society's funds. They shall have power to appoint 

proper persons to fill any offices or placi \ which shall beci vacant by death, 

resignation or otherwise, excepi i I aftei provided in By-Law XI. ; ui h 

appointment to ( ontinue until thi plai - bi filli d bj an elei tion by i hi 5oi i< I 

Annual Meeting They shall keep ord of their proceeding , 

shall be subject to the inspection ol anj membei ol the Societj al reasonable 
times, and which shall he laid befon thi Societ) and bi read al the Annual 
Mei i ings. 

VIII. Five members ol the Standing Committee shall he a quorum for the 
transaction ol ordinar) business, but no payment ol mone) shall be authorized 
unli ;s even members be pri 

IX. Everypei on di irousol becoming a memberoi I iety shall maki 

application, in writing, to the Standing < lommittee, i tting forth di itim tly and 
clearly his < laim to he admitti 'I The ( 'onimitiee -hall ad\ i ' then on, and maj 
require any proof whii h the) ma) deem proper in supporl ol uch ■ [aim, or any 
testimonial with respei i to the i harai tei and standing of the applii ant, and they 
shall report, in writing, the facts of the ease together with their opinion to the 

ety. No person shall be admitted as a member unit hi hall be twi 
one years of age, nor unless Ins claim ami application for admission shall haV( 

been bi fori the Standing Committee prior to the da) ol the meeting on which 
he may be voted for as a member. 

Section i, No person shall be admitted a mi mbi i ol the Soi iety (whati 

ma; bi his relation to an original or other member of 1 I unless he be 

of good moral character and reputation, and be (in thi Ian uagi oft iginal 

institution) "judged worthy of 1 i its supportet and mi mber." 

Section 2. Eligibility to membership in succession, devolvit minor, 



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shall be deemed vested in such minor, but the use thereof shall remain in abey- 
ance until the disability i ea i 01 be removed. 

Section .?. Lineal succession to membership shall be according to the rules 
of inheritance at the common law, unless otherwise expressly provided, subject 
in all cases to the provisions of the Institution. Anil the Officer of the Army 
in Navy of the Revolution, who was an Original Member, shall be deemed ami 
taken as the "propositus'' from whom succession shall be derived. 

Section 4. If any member of this State Society have died, or shall hereafter 
die, leaving no descendant the eldesl male line having become otherwise 
extinct , the Society may, 11 pun the applii ation of some one of the parties, selei t 
from among his brothers or nephews some mi'' whom they may judge worthy to 
be a member of the Society, .mil the person so selected shall be entitled to the 
succession of smh decea ed member; provided, however, that no collateral 
relative Other than a brother or nephew, shall be admitted in succession to such 
member, and that the descendants of any such brother or nephew who shall 
ha\ e been so admitted, may SUC( ceil to him. 

Section 5. The eldest male descendant, of full aye, ot any Original Member 
of any of the Stale Societies which have been dissolved, and also the eldest male 
descendant, if residing in the State of New York, of any Original Memb 
any Slate Society, may be admitted intn this Society (if judged worthy) upon 
the payment into the Treasur} of a sum equal to one month's pay in the 1 on 
tinental Service, oi tin Original Member from whom the applicant claims 
di ci nt, aci ording to the rank of such ( >riginal Member, at the time he signed 
the roll of the Society of which he was a member, together with legal interest 
thereon computed from the Society's organization to the time of such admis- 
sion, provided that such sum shall in no case be less than five hundred dollars, 
unless by spei lal order of this So< iety. 

Section 6. No person shall be admitted a member of this Society whose 
ancestoi adhered to, or took protection from the Enemy during the war of 
the Revolution, 

X. N.i person shall be admitted a member <>f the Society, and no Honorary 
Member shall be elected, except at an Annual Meeting, and no person shall be 
elected an Honorary Member without having been openly proposed as such at 
the immediately preceding Annual Meeting, and an entry of the fact being 
made upon the minutes. 

XI. All investments ol tin- funds of the Society shall continue to be, as 
heretofore, in the names of three Trustees, and of the survivors of them, as 
joint tenants. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of either of such 
Trustees, the place shall lie filled by the Sot iety at its next regular meeting ; 
but if at any time there be two vacancies, n shall be the duty of the Standing 
Committee forthwith to fill the same, which appointment shall be valid until 
others be appointed in their place by the Society ; and immediately upon the 
appointment of any new Trustee or Trustees, all investments of the Society's 
funds shall be transferred to the joint names of the then existing Trustei 

I t tenants. 

Section 1. All money paid into the Treasury by persons admitted, in pur- 
suance ol the foregoing rules ami regul itions, shall he c onsidered as part of the 



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funds or principal money belonging to the Society, and shall be invested in the 
name of the Trustees. 

XII. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of the Society and of the Stand- 
immittee, and shall have the custody of the books and papers belonging 

to the Society. 

XIII. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging- to the Society arising 
from the interest or income of the Society's funds, or other sources of revenue. 
He shall keep an account with some Bank or Trust Company, or both, in tl 

of New York, in which he shall deposit all moneys so received by him, on account 
of the Society, in the name and to the credit of " The New York State Society 
of the Cincinnati," subject to draft upon checks signed by the Treasurer of the 
Society for the time being. He shall keep regular accounts and submit them 
to the inspection of the Standing Committee whenever required by them to do 
so. He shall present an annual report and account of all moneys received and 
paid out by him during the year, and shall submit the same, together with the 
vouchers for his payments, to the Auditing Committee, to be appointed by the 
Standing Committee, in time that the same may be examined by them and be 
ited to the Society at their Annual Meeting, except the payment of the 
expenses attending the Anniversary Meeting of the Society, which may be paid 
by him upon the order cf the President or Yice-President, countersigned by 
the Secretary. 

XIV. Every member, upon his admission, shall be entitled to receive a 
Diploma or Certificate of Membership, to be signed by the President of the 
State Society and countersigned by the Secretary, for which Diploma he shall 
pay the Treasurer, before signing the roll of the Society, the sum of ten dollars. 
The fees thus paid shall be for the use of the Society and be considered as 
part of the revenue for the current year. 

XV. All officers, de ind members of the Standing Com- 
mittee, shall continue in their respective authorities until the election of others 
in their stead. 

XVI. No rule or by-law shall be altered or repealed or suspended in 
such alteration, repeal or suspension shall have been proposed at one Annual 
Meeting and agreed to at the next, and no new rule or by-law shall be made 
(except upon the written recommendation of the Standing Committee unl 
shall have been proposed at one Annual Meeting and aj 1 at the next. 

XVII. Stated meetings of the Standing Committee shall be held at least 
twice in each year, as nearly as may be, at intervals of six months. The time 
and place of meeting, whether stated or special, shall be named by the P 
dent, or in case of his death, absence or inability to act, by the Vice President. 

of the time and place of meeting shall be given in writing by the Secre- 
tary to each member of the Committee at least two days before the meeting. 

In case of the death, absence or inabilit; if both the President and 

Vice-President, the Secretary shall designate the time and place of such meet- 
ing, and in case of his death, absence or inability to act, the meeting may be 
called by the Treasurer, or by any three members of the Standing Committee. 

XVIII. The Society shall at the Annual Meeting each year, from among 
its members, elect a Chaplain and a Physician, each of whom shall be ex-officio 
a member of the Standing Committee. 



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XIX. Whenever any person shall be admitted to the right to become a 
member of the Society, it shall be the duty of the Secretary forthwith i<> give 
him iii 'i 1 < e thereof, and the person thus admitted must immediately thereupon 
subscribe the roll and pay whatever may be required by the rules or regulations, 
by-laws or ordei of the Society, and in case he neglect so to do for the spai e o( 
one year from the date of the vote or election admitting him to the right to 
become a member, such vote or election shall be, and be deemed and held to 
bi n roked, annulled, inoperative and entirely void, and he shall not thereafter 
be entitled to subscribe the roll or be considered in any way .is a member of the 
Society, or entitled to become such, unless upon a new application for admis- 
sion he shall again be admitted to such right. 

XX. The fund of this State Society, having been contributed by its mem- 
bers at its formation, is held for the relief of the hereditary members thereof 
and their families who may be in need of such relief, ami. therefore, cannot be 
appropriated to the relief <'\ those whose am estors were not original membei - 
of this State Society : Provided, that the members admitted to this Society in 
the right of an original member of any of the State Societies that have been dis- 
solved, and the members admitted in the right of an original member of any 
Stale S iciety, who shall have paid, as a condition of their membership, into the 
Treasury of this Society, such sum as this State Society may from time to time 
establish, shall have the same claim on the fund of this Society, as if the 
original members, in whose right thev were admitted, had contributed their 
month's pay thereto. 



Tiir President (Mr. Fish) having laid before the Society, at tin' annual 
meeting, a letter from the 1'resnlent of the South Carolina State Society, in 
reference to commemorating the centennial anniversary of the battle oj C ' is, 
which occurred on the 17th lanuarv, 1781, the following was adopted : 

II hereas, This Society recognize the importance "i the battle of Cowpens, in its result 
toward the attainment of independence, the creation of a nation, and desires to unite with the 
patriotic citizens ol all ami ever) partol the territory embraced within tin- limits of our common 
country in the commemoration of the events which made us a nation, and gave us tin- precious 
rights of free men, ami a recognized place among the family oi nations ; ami 

Whereas, by the reason of the absence oi the Legislature of the State of New York, no 
action can be taken in behalf of the State bj iis authorization in participation in the contemplated 
commemoration ; and 

Whereas, some of the original members of this State Society participated in the said battle, 
ami all oi its members, past, ami present, have sympathized with those who were actors in the 
gallant strife of Morgan, and in his victor) over ["arleton, which checked the onward march oi 
the enemy, who had succes run oui Southern territory. 

Resolved, That this Society does cheerfully unite in the prep , ami in the 

projeel to erect a monument in memory and in honor of the event and of those who shared in the 
victory, and for this purpose contributes the suggested sum of two hundred and !ift\ dollars 

ved, That Mr. Hamilton, General Cochrane and Mr. Crosb) be a committee to co-opei 
ate with the Governor of this State, and with such others as may be duly authorized in 01 in 
behalf of other States, or b) any of the State Societie of the Cincinnati (or in failure of any- 
other being thus authorized), then of themselves to take such measures, in conjunction with the 
Committee of which the Mayor of Charleston is Chairman, as maybe advisable, and proper in 
thai direction, tor the attainment of the object. 



THE Si " H I'Y "i l ill i in, in N VI I. I [7 

188 1. 

At the Anniversary meeting the following Report oj the Delegatt s to the Gen- 
eral Society, which mel in Charleston on the 13th oi April last, was read: 

In general no formal report in writing has been heretofore made b) 5 Delegates to the 

Triennial Meetings of the Society, but the pri 1 ral ociety in Charleston on 

1 iili April, < 1 rious, and involved so wide a departure from the " Immutable" 

principles and the uniform action ol the Society, thai a statemenl "l thi course ol youi Delegates 
at that meeting seems to thi m not only to be justified but requin '1 

This di parture arose with reference to the admission i>f the revived Rhode Island Sociel j ti 1 
membership in the S01 ietj ol thi < im innati. 

This question had appeared first in the Triennial Meeting al Boston, May 29, [872, and was 
referred to a Committee of which Admiral Thatcher was Chairman. This Committei reported, 
and their report was agreed to and ordered placed on its Minutes It declared that it might be 
expedient and proper for tin- General Society to considei an) such application for readmii ion 
Provided, among other conditions, satisfactory evidence had linn presented thai the amount of 
the fund exi ting al the time of the disbandment of tin- Society had been fully made up with 
simple interest. 

At the Triennial Meeting in Philadelphia in 1878, delegati h im the Rhode Island Society 
appeared .on I claimed admission The applii ati"ti wa 1 referred to a Committee ol Five, one from 
each of the States present, who were directed to inquire into thi circumstances attending the dis- 
solution of an) iociety, " the distribution of the funds," &c. Two reports were presented to 
the Sooiety, but a resolution was adopted to recommit the application to the Committee for fuller 
information and to reporl at the nexl mei 

This nexl meeting was the Triennial Me ting in' harleston (th ipril last, when the Dele- 
gates from Rhode Island again attended. 

Mi' Committee ol Five made a very full and very clear report of the most impartial character, 
through their Chairman, Gen Cochrane. The report was unanimous foui out ol fivi m 1 bei 
from the various States being present and agreeing upon the following facts based upon written 
evidenci "I the Rhode Island Society and ils officers and the Records "I thi I '..ink. 

From this report it appeared thai on (th July. 1832, .1 resolution was adopted by the S01 ii t) 
that it We dissolved and the funds be divided and distributed among thi original membei and 
their hei epresi ntatives, and a Committee, composed oi thi President, Treasurer and [ohn 
S. Dexter, v ed to carry the resolution into effecl It is true no quorum was pn senl al 
ilus meeting, bul the 1 ommittee acted for several years, and did substantially dividi all thi 
invested funds and cash "I the Society, amounting on 4th July, 1832, to mori than $4 too, among 
its men 1 1 11 rs in pui uanci ol tin resolution, and for a ] 1 ol mon than fort; peai this resolu- 
tion to dissolvi thi i ciel ind divide its funds was acted upon and acquii ced in withi 
in protest in anj quartei 

I he 1 1 mini 1 1 ti 1 also found thai a further sum ol betweei f id $3,000 had disappi 

but in the absence of any evidence to the contrarj assumed that ii had been applied to the legiti- 
mate objects of the Society, and took iccount of it. It appeared thai thi practio ol thi last 

Treasurer, Col, John S Dexter, was to di itroj thi papei ol the Society, and thai tins practice 

was contii 1 bj his grand-daughter under his direction in [873, in regard to thi papers "f the 

Rhode Island S01 iel | undei lii . . ontrol. 

With this unanimous report ol al ommittei establishing the foregoing facts, youi Delegates 
wi n mi fronted by the Institution adopted bj tin Fathers in [783, foi the performance ol which. 
in their own words, thej "solemnlj pledged to each othei theii sacred honoi " That plei 

I ling upon us, their descendants, ii we would be in 1 haracter, as in desci nt, their worth) 

sors. I h. \ declared in this Institution thai certain principles should be immutable, and form the 

basis of thi Society, and among these immutable principles were "the bstantial acts ol 

' benefi toward thosi officers and their families who unfortunate!) ma) be under the neo 

it) "i ving it." 



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["o form funds for these acts of beneficence each officer gave one month's pay. which they 
d "shall remain Forever to the use of the Stale Society, the interest onlyai which, il neces- 
sary', to be appropriated to the use of the unfortunate." 

A more sacred trust could scarcely have been devised. The State Societies were Trustees, 
and the unfortunate descendants of Revolutionary officers, the cestui que-trusts for whose benefit 
the trust was created. 

It was clear, then, that the Society in Rhode Island not only had dissolved, but had remained 
in that State between forty and fiftj years, showing on their part total want of interest in it, but 
had deliberately committed a breach of this trust and wrongfully divided the principal and interest 
ol the Revolutionary Fund among- its members against the injunction of those who created it, that 
it should remain for ever, and thereby violating the principle declared immutable by the Founders, 
ol extending acts of beneficence toward the unfortunate. This principle, loo, being the only one 
that has any practical operation at this day. 

Under such circumstances no choice was left to your Delegates. The) went as far as they 
were at liberty to go, and one of them offered resolutions, which appear in the Minutes, lo admit 
the Societ) in Rhode Island to membership, on condition that the Funds which had been misap- 
plied should be made good at any time within three years, to the satisfaction of the President- 
General. A motion to i.i\ this mi the table, and thus cut off debate, was made for the first time, 
it is believed, in the history of the Society. This motion was carried by 21 to i ;, votes, and a 
subsequent resolution moved by the same delegate to admit the Society in Rhode Island without 
conditions to full membership prevailed by a like majority, giving an unfortunate air of precon- 
cert! 1 action to the whole proceeding. 

Upon the unanimous report of the Committee of Five, there could of course be no question 
as to the misconduct of the Society in Rhode Island in the past, and your lichgates, assuming on 
the pari of their brethren who differed from them an equal interest with themselves in the fair 
tame and character of the Society, sought an explanation of the grounds on which their action 
was based. I his wasgivi n and was in substance that the transactions referred to occurred many 
years ago, and that the Delegates who appeared had not taken any part in them personally, but 
had unequivocally condemned them. This seemed to your Delegates to be wholly unsound. 
The Rhode Island Delegation did not present themselves as individuals, as in that character they 
could not have been admitted to the General Society, but claimed to represent the Societ) in 
Rhode Island of 1783, and asked its admission, with all its features ol omission and commission 
upon its head, and unless the General Society were ready to condone its offences, and bear a part 
of the odium justly attaching to them, the only course left was to readmit upon restitution of 
the Funds. 

Your Delegates still hope that the Society in Rhode Island will of their own motion replace 
the money and dissipate in part the cloud now hanging over the General Society. 

In this unfortunate proceeding it was some relief to know that Massachusetts and New York 
stood side by side in maintaining, so far as they could, the ancient, and until this year, the 
unsullied honor and principles of the General Society. Though in a minority of States, they 
iicd. as is supposed, a majorit) of the members of the Society, and if they had the misfor- 
tune to differ from so many of their associates, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they 
had adhered to the principles of the Institution, and were supported by the recorded opinions 
of such illustrious original members as Charles Colesworth Pinckney, Allen McLane and others. 

Respectfully submitted, 

JOHN COCHRANE {Chairman). 



On motion, the following remarks made by Mr. Hamilton were ordered to 
be printed, and accompany the above report : 

Mr. President ami /■ Vew York Socl ty : 

In submitting the Report just read, your Delegates to the Triennial Meeting at Charleston 
have brought to a close the performance of what has been to them a painful duly. This feeling 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1^9 

is rendered stronger anil deeper l>y the sadness, anxiety and gloom that hang over us, in common 
with the whole nation, to-day. 

By referring to the printed Minutes of the Proceedings at Charleston, in the hands of the 
members, it will be seen that the report just made is based upon, and taken substantially from 
those Minutes, and that there can be no reasonable doubt of the accuracy of the Minutes and 
unfortunately of the inevitable inferences to be drawn from them. 

For myself, I confess — though it may show a lack of fortitude — that with the deep affection 
and interest 1 have always hitherto felt in the Society of the Cincinnati, and which it was my 
right and duty to feel, these proceedings at Charleston have caused me much regret and pain, 
since unless we cherish the sacred memories, and give full, loyal, adherence to the principles of 
the Founders, the Society of the Cincinnati can exist only in name. 



On motion, the following resolution was also adopted : 

Resolved, That the Report of the Delegates to the Triennial Meeting oi the i leneral Society, 
in Charleston, in 1SS1, be approved and placed upon the Minutes of the Society, and that a 
printed copy thereof and of this Resolution be transmitted by the Secretary to the Secretary- 
General and also to the several State Societies. 



Also the following was adopted : 

Whereas, The General Society of the Cincinnati, at the meeting held in Charleston, in 
April, 1881, "Resolved, That a Committee be appointed, consisting of one from each State 
Society, to be chosen at the meetings i if the State Societies, on the 4th of July next (viz. : the ath 
of July, 1881), the one chosen, if unable to attend, to have the right, with the approval of the 
Society, to appoint a substitute, to which shall be added the President General as Chairman of 
the Committee, and that said Committee be instructed and shall have power to revise and modify 
the old, and present any new rules and ordinances that they may think best," and further as pro- 
vided in the said resolution of the General Society, and 

Whereas. This State Society of New York has, in pursuance of the said resolution, appointed 
General John Cochrane to be the member of the said Committee from this State Society, therefore 

Resolved. That this Society doth approve, and hereby gives power to General Cochrane, the 
member of the Committee from the New York State Society, if at anytime he be unable to attend, 
to appoint a substitute in his place on the said Committee, and such substitute from time to time 
to change, and anew substitute to appoint, and further 

Resolved. That in case the said General Cochrane be at any time unable either to attend or to 
appoint a substitute as above provided, that the Presiding Officer of this Society (for the time 
being) be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint another member of this State Society, a! the 
member of such Committee from the New York State Society, with like powers of substitution as 
above expressed, and 

Whereas, The scope of power granted to the proposed Committee is large, and may involve 
the future interests and business of the Society, it is the opinion of this State Society, th 
and deliberation be had, and opportunity afforded, if need be, to consult and confer m 
among the members of the Committee, but possibly with the several State Societies, or with the 
officers thereof, therefore 

Resolved. That in the opinion of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, it is in I 
expedient to attempt to hasten the conclusions of the Committee in anticipation of a mei I 
the General Society, prior to the regular time of its meeting, and furl 

Resolved. That the New York Stat< Society does nol favor the assembling of a Genera] 
Meeting during the present year, there being, in its opinion, no adequate object to compensate 
the expense and inconvenience of bringing delegates together so soon after the General Mi 
held in April last. 



140 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Also the following was adopted : 

The New York State Society of the Cincinnati have heard with heartfelt sorrow and 
indignation, of the murderous assault upon James A. C.arfield, the President of tiik United 
States, and they desire to express to his family, their deep sympathy in the distressing calamity 
which has so suddenly overwhelmed them in the deepest grief, and to join their prayers with 
those of the whole community, that our heavenly Father may bless with success, the means used 
for his recovery, and may continue to our country and its institutions, 1 1 is care and protection 
in the severe trials that may be impending. 

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing, certified by ///.• President (Mr. Fish) and the Secre- 
taiy (Mr. Schuyler) be transmitted by telegraph to the Hon, William M. Evarts, Secretary of 
State of the United Slates. 

On motion, it was also unanimously 

Resolved, In view of the distressing anxiety resulting from the present condition of the 
President of the United States, that the Society do dispense with its usual Anniversary Dinner. 



A communication from the Hon. John W. Johnston, Chairman of the York- 
town Congressional Committee, extending to the New York State Society an 
invitation to attend and participate in the ceremonies of the Centennial cele- 
bration, to be held at Yorktown in October next, under the auspices of the 
United States, was received and, on motion, accepted. 



1882. 

At the Anniversary meeting the Committee, upon the communication from 
the Massachusetts Society, made the following report : 

The Committee, to whom was referred the communication from the Standing Committee of 
the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, to the New York State Society for its information, 
having held the same under consideration, respectfully report the following facts, and their 
conclusions therefrom : 

Ensign Frederick Frye was an original member of the Massachusetts State Society, and died 
a member thereof. In the year 1836 his son Daniel M. Frye, then a resident of the State of New 
York, was, on application, admitted a member of the Cincinnati by the New York State Society, 
upon the condition of his paving " into the funds of the Society, one month's pay upon the rank 
held by his father in the Continental army, previous to its dissolution." lie died in the year 
1S59. leaving unperformed the condition on which his membership depended. His son. Frederii k 
Fru\ also a resident of the State of New York, was admitted to membership by the New York 
State Society in 1859. He removed shortly thereafter to Louisiana, of which State he was a 
resident for many years prior to his death, which occurred in New Orleans. 22nd June, 18S1. 
His widow. Matilda I!. Free, then and still a resident of Louisiana, applied for aid to the New 
York Society, and was advised, that as no contribution to the funds of the New York Society had 
ever been made by her husband, or by his ancestors, her application could not be allow-ed by that 
Society. She thereupon addressed her application to the Massachusetts Society, to which it is 
understood that Ensign Frye contributed his " one month's pay" at the time of the organization 
of the Cincinnati, and which Society has enjoyed the use of that contribution for nearly one 
hundred years. The Massachusetts Society rejected her petition; first, by reason of a local 
regulation, and secondly, that as the widow of Frederick F'rye, she had no claim upon that 
Society. 



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Your Committee might justly rest a recommendation that the request oi Mrs. Frye be nol 
granted by this Society, on the ground that Daniel M. Frye did not during his lifetime comply 
witrf the condition attached to, and which qualified his membership. It is true that technically 
the condition did not affect the tenure of Frederick Frye who succeeded him. But your Committee 
are of the opinion that the consequences of a pecuniary condition imposed and disregarded, 
should operate adversely to a petition for pecuniary relief, by the successor of the delinquent. 

Your Committee, however, are not disposed to place their opinion on this single ground, but 
proceed to the consideration of the subject proposed and discussed in the communication sub- 
mitted to this Society for its .information, by the Standing Committee of the Massachusetts 
Society. 

The postulate of the proposition submitted by the Massachusetts Society, "that no one can 
be a member of two sister Societies of the Cincinnati at the same time." is regarded by your 
Committee as untenable. The Society of the Cincinnati is one. Its unity is as indestructible as 
its principles. The division into State Societies is a peculiar economy of its government, which, 
avowedly to facilitate communication, delegates to each State a fractional representation of the 
whole. Upon admission to membership by a State Society, the candidate does not thereby 
become a member of the State Society, but of the ONE society of friends, Thenceforth he is 
a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and his residence determines in the proceedings of 
which of its Chapters he is entitled to participate. Had Frederick Frye, having been admitted in 
the State of New York, removed to the State of Massachusetts, it is not supposed that his 
prescribed access to the Society in Massachusetts would have disturbed his rights as a member of 
the Cincinnati. The Institution of the Society declares that "the Slate Societies will consist of 
all the members resident in each State respectively; and any member removing from one State to 
another is to be considered in all respects as belonging to the Society of the State in which he- 
shall actually reside" — a provision qualified by the right of each " State Society to regulate every- 
thing respecting itself * * * consistent with the general maxims of the Cincinnati." in virtue 
of which the State Societies have prescribed rules regulating the enrollment among their members 
of those removing among them from another State Society. 

It remains to enquire whether Frederick Frye — having been admitted a member of the Cin- 
cinnati in the State of New 7 York, and having removed from the State of New York and become 
a resident of Louisiana, where he died, and where his widow continues to reside — the application 
of his widow for relief is properly addressed to the Society in the State of Massachusetts, in 
whose treasury the contribution of " one month's pay " of Frederick Frye's ancestor, was deposited 
and remains. 

In the third order of the fundamental principles to which was committed the perpetuity of 
the Society, is enumerated the continuance among its members of progressive generations, of the 
cordial affection which subsisted among its founders. The confident expectation that from this 
source would How " the most substantial acts of beneficence, according to the ability of the 
Society, toward those officers and their families who, unfortunately, might be under the necessity 
of receiving it," is particularly sanctioned by the Institution. It is noteworthy also, that this 
expectation comprehended a dispensation of the same measure of relief to the unfortunate mem- 
bers of the Cincinnati of successive generations and their families. The efficacy of the obligation 
was not entrusted to its annunciation alone. Not only the source of supply to these anticipated 
requisitions upon the benevolence of the Society, but the mode of their inception and acquittal is 
fairly indicated in the fundamental Charter. To those officers only, of the American Army, was 
accorded the right of becoming parties to the Institution, who both signed their names to the 
general rules of the Society in the Slate v, here they resided, and subscribed one month's pay to 
its kinds. That the sums subscribed might be available for their purpose, they were directed to 
be delivered to the Treasuier of the State Society in perpetuity. The expected respectable pro- 
portions of their aggregate, warranting the belief that its interest would be adequate to the relief 
of the unfortunate, its interest only was appropriated to that object. Thus the sum delivered 
into the Treasury of each Mate Society by the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati 
constituted a fund ordained inviolate to the use of that State Society forever, the interest of 
which was to be appropriated to the relief of those who contributed thereto, or their unfortunate 
representatives. Though the obligation of relief is, as we have seen, a general obligation of the 
Society, yet the eleemosynary fund of each State Society having been raised by its original mem- 



i i • THE 0( II I \ OF nil CINCINNATI. 

bers and ippropriated to ihe exclusive use of that Societj forever, the omission ol the Society 
\\c hi I, l hi presentlj revealed, which should fail to use ii foi the purpose to which the Institution 

devotes it, Its use is ip| ted to the reliel ol the original members who contributed to the 

fund, and their families, and ol those and the families ol those who become members in the 
> Li ol the original members, in the opinion ol your Committee, a claim for reliel is rightly 
and equitably addressed to that State Society which holds the contribution to the Society's fund, 
made bj the original membei in succession to whom the claimant appeals, ["he righl ol reliel 
to the original membei inheres in the fund raised by Ids month's pay. Unless subscribed, he 
had not become a party to th< Institution Its delivery therefori was tin essential consideration 
h his rights undei ii wen conveyed to him ; and firsl among those rights is the right to 
partake, in misfortune, ol the fund in which Ids " one month's pay "- the token ol Ids patriotic 

i i: ii , po in isembedded. That his descendant admitted in Ihe righl succeeds to the rights 

to the original membei is obvious enough ll, therefore il is impossible to withstand the right ol 
the original mi mbi i to n lit I from the fund ol which his " one month's pay " is a part, it is also 
impo ible to withhold ii from the descendant, admitted in the righl of his ancestor to the benefits 
In enjoyed II being ;ell evident th.it the right ol a member to relief from a particular State 
fund, imposes • > correspondin > obligation i>n the State Society to render it, the question whether 
the removal ol th< membei to another State, discharges the State Society ol its obligation, is 
mswered bj the conclusion hereinbefore reached, that the essential rights of the member, and 
consequently the obligation ol the Society, remain unaffected and unci i i I bj hii removal 
['he o "i .in opposite conclusion might embrace the spectacle ol a State Societj 

beyond whose limits its members shall havi removed, in the possession ol a constantlj accumu- 
,i fund, aud of a State Societj with a fund oppressed bj the relief ol migratory 
members, i to the wants of its unfortunate hereditary members and tin ir families. 

I ot tin ii n i ons, yom Committee an ol thi opinion, and so report, thai Matilda is. Frye, 
the survivin Frederick Frye, at his death a member ol the Societj ol thi Cincinnati, 

in the righl ol his grandfathei Frederick Frye, one ol the original member; ol the Society in the 
State of Massachusetl is not entitli f from the funds ol the Society in the State ol New 

\ ,n k. and thai Ik i petition foi reliel w is properlj i o the Massachusetl tj 

JOHN COCHRANE, 
fOHN SCHUY1 ER, 

■ .■ ittec. 
Wuii Committee submit as part of their report the following resolutions 
i i lli.it in the opinion ol this Society, the adoption of the following regulation 

(substantially one "l its own by-laws), would bring the different State Societies at this point into 
harmonj with each other .um\ with the spiiii and requirements ol the Institution, \ i 

I lie fund of this State Soi ii tj . having bi en contributed by its members at its formation, is 
held foi the reliel ol tin hereditary membei thereol and theii families who may be in need ol 
md therefore cannot be appropriated to the reliel ol thosi whosi mcestors wen not 
i members ol this State Societj , that the members admitted to the Societj in 

the righl ol an original membei ol any ol the State Societies that have been dissolved, and the 
members admitted in the righl ol an original membei ol any State Society, who shall havi p lid, 
as a condition ol theii membership, into the freasurj ol the Society, such sum as the State 

Soi ii tj maj n time to timi establish, shall have the same claim on the fund of the Soi ti tj as 

if the original members in jhl thej were admitted had contributed theii month's 

. ['hat the report be idopted, and that a printed copj thereol b< respectfully trans 
o In Massachusetts Society, and to each ol the othei Stati ol the Cincinnati, 

i idcration. 

On motion, a Committee consisting of the Presid . Mr. Fish, General John 
irane, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Alexander Hamilton, and John Schuyler 
(///<■ S i',) was appointed to make arrangements for the celebration ol the 

• Via) next, * 

l'i ivu • ip| ti d Committee, bin iti i lim tl ti ■ ounl ol liis ■. oini ■ 



I III I V 'II I III, ( INI INNATI. 14.5 



I883. 



General Order, New York, ioih February, 1883. 

The Centennial dinner "| the New York Stale Society ol the ' i nati, celebrating thi 

1 <S 1 si Anniversary of the birthday of Genera! Washington, will be held at Delmonico's I th 
Avenue), on Thursday, February 22, at 7 o'clocl P m 

John Schuyler (Secretary). HAMILTON FISH (President), 



At the meeting of the Standing Committee, May 2d, the Secretary read the 
following communication from the Committee on the celebration of the /■'■ >i, u 
ation <>J the City of New York by the British : 

Rooms oj mm Ch mbi b 01 1 ommerci , gth March, 1 
The Honorable Hamilton Fish, President. 

Sue I have the honoi to inform you that al a meeting of the ( 'ommittei of Fifteen, delegated 

by the < leneral Committee of thi Com n Council "I this City, thi Chaml f C01 and 

the New York Historical Sociefy, ii w.-c unanimou ;lj n olved to invite thi Ni w Vork Society of 

the • Irdei of thi Cin ati, to participati in tl itennial celebra f thi Evacuation ol this 

City by the British, and I I honorary membership upon thi ' o ittee ol Fifteen to such 

five of your members as your Society may delegate 

Respectfully yours, 

John AUSTIN Stevi tary) [OTIN 1 OCIIRANE (Chairman). 

In accordance with the above the President delegated the following mem- 
bers: Mr, Schuyler (Chairman), Mr. Crosby, Mr. Keese, Mr. Clinton, and Mr, 
Clarkson to represent the Society. 



The Si a retary, al the Anniversary meeting, read a communical from. thi 

Committee oj the Centennial commemoration oj tfu announcement of peace, and the 
disbandmenl of the Army of the Revolution, which he had received on June 
10th, and in accordance with which the following was issued : 

Geni r \ 1. < Irder, June 1 8, 1883. 

Members of thi 1 incinnati in invited to attend the Centennial commemorati f the 

innouncemenl ol peace, ind the disbandmenl ol thi Army ol the Revolution, to be held al the 

Camp Gi id, New Windsor, on the 22d ol fune, i | II" Ubanj tcamboat hei at the 

fool "i Wcsl 22d Street, al <> \. m. , for Newburgh. 

John Schuyler (Secretary). HAMU ru\ FISH (Prei 



The Special Committee appointed under the resolution adopted .11 thi 
Anniversary meeting of the Society, on the 4th July, 1882, to take chargi ol 
the Centennial Celebration <>/ the Society, n ported as follov i 



1 In the abflence of the President, the banqui , I 



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Thai one ol Ihc Committee being absent in Europe, no definite action was taken until the 
in. run- of the Standing I lommittee, May 2d, i S83, when the Committee was organi ed, and an 
appropriation ol 2 dollars made for the expenses. As the i;;th (if May, the day on which the 
Institution was adopted, fell on Sim, lav. Monday the 1 [th "1 May. was fixed as the daj foi the 
1 ion to Baron Steuben's Headquarters, to celebrate the formation of the Society 
The General Societ) having di cided not to < ommemorate the centennial, otherwise than by 
strikingamedal.it was deemed proper to extend no invitations formally to our sistei State 
Societies, but to treat the oci asion act ording to the fai 1, as a i , lebration by the New \ ork State 
Society only. In conformity with the usual practice ol the Society, members ol othei state 
Societies, in the City ol New York, were cordially invited to attend, by publication of the follow 
ing notice and invitation in the daily papers, several day. befon the celebration 

['hi New York Slate Society of the Cincinnati 10th May, > 83 In 1 niano of a resolution adopted bj the 

\, u \ the 1 : . inn. in, an excursion will be made to the Cantonments ol the Revolutionary 
army, neai New ^ indsor, ' mmemorate the formation ol the Society, in May, 

I!,, teamboat Chester A. Arthur will leave from Governor's Island fen*) house, Battery, fool ol White- 
hall Street, N Y. City, on Monday, 141I1 May, 1883, at 9 o'clock a. m.. and will touch at the dock, foot ol NY. 51 

23d Street, at about . [o, ei : for Wesi Point, Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, and General Baron 

Steubi n's Headquarters at Fishkill. 

Members of the othei State Societies in ill. city a rdially incited to be present on this occasion, wearing 

ilu 11 badgi s as members. 

Alexander Hamh . [oh 1 ochranb, Pierre Van Corti vndt, John Schi vlbr (i bmtnittee). 

Immediately after the 2d of May, the Committee took measures to secure a steamboat, when 
through the kindness of General Hancock and the Deputy Quarter-Master General, « 
ti. 1, the Governmen I. Arthur was placed at the disposal ol the Committee. 

It was thought proper to maki is occasion to do spe< ial honor to the officers ol the Army 

and Navy of the I nitcd States, ami invitations were sent to them accordingly. 

(,;■/:, 1/ Hancock, from recent domestic afflictions, was unable to attend, but Lieutenant 

I , his A djutant, with several distinguished officers from Governor's Island and the Army 

l'ost in New Yorl l ity, were present. The Navy was represented by Admiral Nicholson, 

Commodores Upshut ami Kane, Lieutenant Arnold and others. Members of the othei State 

mong the quests. To oui great regret, the President of our Society, from 

lameness caused by an accident, was unable to be present, 1ml "in venerable I : 
William S. Popham, was on board, to the satisfaction of all. The steamboat, with the military 
1 .ami 1 10111 Fori 1 [amilton, hit New N oik about nine and a hall o'clock, -nul tout hing al Wesi 
Point, the party was joined by about twenty officers from that l'ost. including Lieutenant 
Hoyle, the Adjutant to represent G Merritt, the Superintendent, who was detained by his 

official duties. After leaving West Point, a collation was served (by Delmonico), and at ii ,1,-.,. 
the memory of Washington was given — as usual, standing and in silence. As'the steamboal passed 
Newburgh, a taint, . guni was fired from Washington's Headquarters, and Hags 

wen displayed throughout the town. The steamboal anchored "if the dock, at the foot of the 
lawn ol the Verplanck homestead, and the members and their guests landed in rowboatS. 

The) were met on the landing, and most kindly received by Messis. Verplanck and their 
friends, and 1 si orted to the house, when- the ladies ol the family gave them a cordial welcome. 
A collation wa: served, and at its close, the members of the Verplanck family, the members ol 
the Society and their guests assembled in the large hall where the Societj was formed. Here 
the principles that form the basis of the Society were read from the Institution, and a lew words 
wen said expressing the Society's gratification that they were permitted to meet in a spot 
hallowed to them by the dearest memories, and then, with many adieus, the members and their 
returned to the shore and went on board again. Unfortunately, head tides and the 
unavoidable delays of landing in small boats had brought tin party to a late hour in th, iftei 
noon, and the I ', mi mil tee wei, I , hi, lint U compelled to disappoint 1 hi , it i a ns ol Newlmigh. and 

omit a part of the proceedings as adverti; ed, by giving up the visit to Washington's I leadquarters. 
A heavy storm that was coming up contributed to this determination. 

nl, oat proceeded on its way to New York, after landing the officers from West 
Point, reaching the citj between ten ami eleven o'clock. And so, this memorable day ended, 
withoul in tccident to mar in the slightest degree its enjoyment. If, as Dr. Johnson said in 



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thai well known passage— " That man is little to be envied who m would m 

force upon the plain ol Marathon" vhal oughl to have been — what were our feelings — the 
1 endants, in visiting the spot, the birthplace of our Society, where, om: 
hundred years ago, the ollicers of the Revolutionary Army, as trin patriots as ever honored 
humanity, founded an Association based upon liberty, union, friendship and charity, as the 
closing act of eight years of unequalled fortitude and devotion. Everything served to heighten 
these feelings — the venerable house built in 1730, with its ample hall, oaki , ed walls, 

generous wood lircs, much as they were in 1783 — the old ante-revolutionary trees surrounding it 
— the presence of the noted family, owners of the land from the 17th century to the present 
time — and, above all, the endearing Revolutionary memories, more than sufficient to rouse us 
from that " frigid indiffen n< 1 ," to which Dr. Johnson refers with contempt in the passage alluded 
to. What wonder if moistened eyes and a quiet but deep interest pervaded tin- part) a 1 mbli '1 
in that old hall, as we read from the Institution those principles, simple, bul earnest, in which, 
under the pledge to each other of their sacred honor, our Fathers declared their Unalterable 
devotion to liberty, union, brotherly kindness and charity, in that very spot. 

In the providence of God, it shall, as we trust, be permitted to our successors to celebrate at 
the end of another century the formation of the Society. This brief record will at hast show 
them that in our day we were not unmindful of what was due to the memory ol the Founders. 

New York, 4th July, 1883. ALEXANDER HAMI1 fO Chairman) 



At ,t special meeting of the Society held on 20th November, to take 
measures for participation in the celebration of the coming Evacuation day, 
the President (Mr. Fish) submitted the following invitation ; 

New . 1 Mh November, 1883. 

The 11 !ii!-, Fish (Pr, ident). 

The immittee of the Common Council, the Chamber of Commerce of thi tab "i 

New York and the New York Historical Society, charged with the celebration "I the <'"> I1101 
dredth Anniversary of the Evacuation of thi I itj "I New York by the British 

for Monday, the 26th inst., respectfully invite the presence of ;, ty at the 

irranged l"r the 01 1 asion. 

With great regard, your obedient sec. rder, 

Jon 1 Jl >ll.\ COCHRANE {Ciuiirman) 



\\ .1 meeting oi thi Standing Committee held on tin- 14th December, thi 
Committee, on securing in the gallery of the N Y. Histoi 1 ty a place 

for the safe keeping of the oil painting of Lieutenant Abijah Hammond, 
recentl) pn ented to this Society by his son, madi the following : 

Report, Thai Historical Soi mmitlee tm Literature and 

Art, 111 relation to di Lieutenant Ha i lery, with the 

i I ; 

July. 1828, by Colonel John Trumbull, and whii h had been deposited thi 

' Hammond's portrait "n ai 

1,;: it. ami th' 1 tation. 

WILLIAM II < 1 ■' 1 .matt. 



Tie try having stated that he had r< • veral communications 

from General Palfrey in regard to the Centennial 1/. - the So iety ordered the 
following notici to bi sent to each of its membi 



I |(> I 111' SOCIE l\ OF I III CIN< INN \ II 

In iccordanci with a resolution passed l<\ the Standing Committee of the New York State 

• u nl the rim inn. in. the Secretarj was instructed to notify each member ol the Society that 

the Centennial Medal authorized by the General Society at its last meeting .it Charleston, S, C, is 
now ready, and will be senl to those members ordering the same, by addressing .1 communication 
to thai effect to 1 Francis V Palfrey, Secretary of the Massai husetts Stati Society, No | ; 

Equitable Building, Boston, Mass., stating the metal of which they desire to have theii badge, 
enclosing tin amount, and address to which they desire them sent. Th( price ol themedalin 
gold will In- $20 ; in silver, $2 ; and in bronze, si, )o 

Respectfully, &i , JOHN SCHUYLER, Secretary. 

New York, Jan. 15th, 1S84 N V. State Society of the Cincinnati. 

( )n the 1 8th ( )ctober the < 'ity of Newburgh held a Centennial Celebration. The 
invitations thereto having been sent by their Committee ol Arrangements to 
the members oi the Cincinnati individually, no general order was issued to 
attend. Many of the members endeavored to do so. but from the inefficiency 
of the Grand Marshal or the Committee of Arrangements in preserving order, 
it was impossible to gain admittance to the grand stand. 



1884. 



At the Anniversary meeting the Committee on the Centennial of tin- Evacua- 
tion of the City oj Veil York, respectfully 

\ 1 I1.1i in conformity with the resolution passed by the Society al the Special Meeting 
ol Novembei soth last, all the members of this Society, as well as those of the other State 
Societies, were notified, and that the Order of the Cincinnati at the grand stand at Madison 
Square, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, was represented by the President-General 
in person and a full delegation from the several State Societies. 

\l 1 \ Wnl K I CLINTON, Chairman. 



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At the Standing Committee meeting, held on the 1 tth May, Mr. Fish stated 
that he had received a bronze medal from the Committee to commemorate the 
Centennial Celebration of the Evacuation ol New York by the British, and the 
erection of the Statue ol W ASM tNG I * >N in Wall Street, together with a letter 
presenting the same 1 to the Society.* 

Geni 1; \t Order. 

Member-, .a ih, Cincinnati Society are requested to attend the funeral of oui I Merit, 

William S. Popham, from his late residence al Scarsdale, Westchester County, N. Y., on Satur- 
day, June 201I1. Carri will lie in readiness al the Scarsdale Station upon the arrival of the 
halt-past two i'. m Harlem Railroad train from the Grand Central Depot, fhe usual badge of 
mourning will be worn for thirty days. 

John Schuyler, Secretary. HAMILTON FISH, Pus 

At the jilt oi July Anniversary Meeting a committee was appointed to pre- 
pare appropriate resolutions, to be forwarded to the other State Societies and 
to Mr, Popham's family. 



1 lie medal was struck by the American Numismatic and \i. ha ological S01 ietj 



I III SOCIE I V OF I HE CINCINNATI, i 17 

General Order, August 8th. 

I he New York State Society of the Cincinnati join in the universal griel ioned by the 

death of their fellow member General ULYSSES S, GRANT.* They appreciate thai l gri il 

and good man has departed, and will take part in the demonstrate I honor to be paid to his 

memory, The Society will, therefore, a: i-mlili mi tin- morning 1. 1 iln- film ml, atold Delmonico's, 

cot i Bi ivi ' ind South William Streets, at g o'clock, wearing the usual badgi o) mourning, 

Members "f the other State Societies, in town, are invited to attend and report to the Si i n 
tary or Aide in i hargi 

John SCHUYLER, HAMILTON IISII (President-General). 

Secretary and Aide to General Hancock. 



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General Order, February totlt. 

The Society of the Cincinnati has to lament the death of Major-General WINFIELD 
SCO! I HAM OCK.f an honorary member of the Society. A soldier of the highest order, a 
citizen of pure life, a frii nd "I ill that was lofty, he is railed suddenly from his high position ol 
usefulness. 

Members are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning fur thirty days. 

John SCHUYLER (Secretary). HAMILTON FISH (President). 

At the meeting held at Delmonico's on the 22d of February, to celebrate 
the 154th anniversary of the birthday of the Society's firsl President- General, 
His Excellency General WASHINGTON, il was on motion ol (initial John 
( lochrane — 



Resolved — That il is with painful emotions we record the loss our So< iety lias sustained in the 

decease of its late distinguished member, our honored associate 1 friend, the Honorable 

w 1 1 Moi i,ll;l;i:s 1)1, SAUSSIiRK, of South Carolina. Known to us all a a chi 
gentleman, the story of his life narrates the history of an accomplished scholar. We sympathize 
with our sister Si. lie Society oi South Carolina in the deprivation of theii Pre ident, and with his 
surviving family in their irreparable bereavement. 



tral Grant died on the 23d July, 1885. 

Hai died on the 9th Fi bruary, 18 



Biographical Sketches 



OK THE 



MEMBERS 



OF THE 



NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY 



CINCINNATI. 



)ONAS A DOOMS 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Born in New Jersey. I >i i< 1 t6th of July, 1837. \ . ■. < ■ 1 85. 

lie i.inir early into New York, became an Associate/) for fnde| lence 

in 1775, and joined as ,1 private a uniformed company in New Vork, when 
1 1 1 < "Asia"opened fire upon thi city, destroying .1 pari of it west of Broad- 
way, Was attached to the corps of five months men thrown upon Long 
[stand, and served al the Narrows when Lord Howe's fleel landed the British 
Win) -at New Utrecht. He then returned to New Jersey with a company of 
militia, and was its acting Quartermaster when ii joined General Washington al 
the Battle of Germantown, arriving, after a night's march, in front of the 
British line in season to aid in driving ii hark. He was afterward 'I' tailed as 
Assistant to Colonel Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, from rst <>f 
October, 17.S0. Meanwhile he had served at White Plains, and in the struggle 
to check the advance in Westchester, after the Battle of Long Island, In 
August, 17X1,111' was appointed by Governor Clinton in the "New Levies," 
and commissioned by Congress, January 29th, 17.S2, as Second Lieutenant ol the 
jiI Regiment ot Continental Artillery — Colonel John Lamb with rank from 20th 
of August. In regimental orders, 21st of December, 1781, on the special 

recommendation of Colonel Richard Piatt, he was assigned to Captain G 

Fleming's company ol that regiment, and served with it through man) 

engagements to the close ol the war, Lieutenant Addoms had the privili I 

marching into New York after its evacuation on the 25th of November, 17^, 
with the main army, and to be stationed with his battery in tin- old Fori 

in the Cit) Park still known by that name Vftei th< terminal 1 the war, 

1st of January, 1784, he was mustered out, with pari ill his regiment, with an 
honorable disi harj 

llr subsequent^ located al Philadelphia, and later al Boston; but after 
three years returned to New York, being appointed bj Co lonel Lamb, hi old 
commander— then 1 oj the Port - first as // mil then as Public 

Storekeepi r, and remained attached to the service ot the I ustoms, through all 
political changes, for thirty-three years, until he retired to pass n rig of 



152 I H 1 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

his life in domestic quiet, esteemed as a brave man, and a vigilant public 
servant. His name appears on the roll of officers entitled to Half-Pay.* 

CHARLES ADDOMS, Ins eldest son, succeeded him in the Society in 
1843. He died in 1881, leaving issue a daughter. 

ROGER ALDEN 

Staff rank of Major and Aide-de-Camp. 

l!<un in Lebanon, Conn., in 1 - 48, graduated at Vale College in 1773, 
and died at West Point on the 5th of November, 1836. Was appointed 
Captain Lieutenant \x\ the 2d Connecticut Regiment — Colonel Zebulon Butler — 
1st of June, 1778. That regiment, commanded by a soldier of the French war, 
who was in the expedition to Havana, afforded Lieutenant Alden very soon a 
baptism of lire in the terrors of the Wyoming massacre, on the 3d of July 
following, where Colonel Zebulon Butler, with a thin regiment and a weak 
garrison, bravely ventured to attempt to surprise Colonel John Butler, an enter- 
prising Tory officer — born like himself in Connecticut — who had invaded the 
valley with double his force. He was defeated with the loss of half his men, 
two hundred and fifty of whose scalps were the trophies of his savage oppo- 
nent ; and the attendant ravages have never been forgotten. Soon after this 
demoralization of his command he left it, on the selection of Major-General 
Greene, to serve as his Aide-de-Camp. By a resolution of the Connecticut State 
Society of the Cincinnati, 5th of July, 1783, he was admitted a member, signed 
the roll, and contributed a month's pay. He subsequently ami fortunately, 
as it proved, affiliated with the New York Society in 1793, and served as a 
member of its Standing Committee. He resided at Meadville, Pa., from 17115 
to 1825 as agent of the Holland Land Company, and was Ordinance Store- 
Keeper at West Point from 20th of January. 1825, until his death. 

ROBERT PERCY ALDEN, his grandson, and son of the late Captain 
Bradford Riplev Alden of the United States Navy, was admitted to the New 
York State Society on the 4th of July, 1SS3, in his right. 

* This question was long discussed in Congress, and finally arranged May 15th, 1778. The Committee first 
reported in favor of its continuance for the lives of officers, and of the widows of those killed in service, and finally 
enacted that "All military officers commissioned by Congress who should continue in service during the war. and 
not hold any office of profit in the States, should be entitled to receive annually, after the conclusion of the war, 

one-half of their present pay, for the term of seven years y provided that no general officer, of the artillery, 
cavalry or infantry, should receive more than the half-pay of a Colonel, and that this gratuity should extend to no 
officer who should not take an oath of allegiance to the United States, and actually reside within the same." The 
non-commissioned officers and soldiers serving for that term, instead of half-pay, were entitled to receive a specific 
reward of eighty dollars at the end of the war. There were but two dissenting votes. The law was several times 
subsequently amended, mainly by extensions of its application to spet i.,1 cases. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 153 

PETER ANSPACH 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

He served as an Assistant to Colonel Timothy Pickering, from ist of Octo- 
ber, 1780, until appointed a Second Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — 21st of December, 1781, having acted with 
that rank in Captain Moodie's Company from the preceding 30th of August. 
He was next assigned to duty as Assistant Quartermaster in the main Army, 
and after the discharge of the Continental troops at West Point, excepting the 
Battalion of Artillery and a Regiment of Infantry, was, on the ist of January, 
1784, ordered to Philadelphia to settle his own accounts, and to assist in 
arranging those of the Quartermaster's Department. 

Was honorably discharged on the ist of June, 1784, and appears on the 
roll of officers entitled to half-pay after the Peace. 



EDWARD ANTILL 

Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Canada Regiment. 

Born on the nth April, 1742, at Piscataway, N. J. Died at St. Johns, 
Canada, in 1787. 

He graduated at King's College, New York, in the Class of 1762. Was a 

member of a prominent family of New Jersey. In 1766 he settled in Quebec 

as a lawyer, where he married Charlotte Rievrier. When General Montgomery 

appeared before Quebec in December, 1775, he left that city, and joining him, 

influenced him to change his plan of attack. He became his Chief -Engineer, 

constructing field works of ice, where earth was inaccessible, and was present 

with him when he fell. When leaving the camp at Lachine on the 5th of 

January, five days afterwards, he wrote to Colonel Burr : 

" Dear Burr : I have desired Mr. Price to deliver you my pistols, which you will keep until 
I see you. They are relics from my father's family, and therefore I cannot give them to you 
The General — Wooster — has thought proper to send me to the Congress, where I shall haw .in 
opportunity of speaking of you as you deserve Yours, Edward Antii.i.." 

In 1776, when Congress formed the 2d Canadian Regiment mainly of 
exiles, Colonel Moses llazen, a British half-pay officer in easy circumstances, 
residing at St. Johns, and who had already cast his fortunes with Montgomery, 
and followed the remainder of the American forces over the frontier, was 
chosen its Colonel, and Edward Antill Lieutenant-Colonel. It was even then a 



154 rHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

strong regiment— seven hundred and twenty men — but Congress appears to 
have valued it in ordering it to be recruited in any of the States to four battal- 
ions of five companies each, with four Majors and other officers in proportion. 
Sixteen companies, however, appear to have been the fullest complement of 
what was known as "Congress' Own." It had evacuated Canada, under 
General Sullivan, and therefore continued in his Brigade, which served with 
the main army at Trenton and Princeton, and later, in protecting the lines at 
Morristown. On the 8th of January, 1777 , General Washington wrote him 
from his headquarters there a letter suggestive of coming action : 

" Call upon all your officers who are upon recruiting service to exert themselves as much as 
possible in tilling their companies and sending their recruits forward to some genera] place ol 
rendezvous, that they may be armed, equipped and got into service, with as much expedition as 
possible. As you and Colon I Hazen had the nomination of your own officers by virtue ol your 
commissions. 1 shall have no objection to any gentleman of good ch iracter whom you may think 
tit to appoint." 

On the 24th of February following, Richard Peters. Secretary of War, urges, 
in a letter, upon Colonel Antill, then commanding the regiment, the necessity, 
from impending events, of promptness in hurrying his companies forward to 
unite in meeting the enemy. 

In complying, the regiment was soon actively engaged under Sullivan, and 
when he attacked the rear of Howe's army on Staten Island — consisting of 
three thousand British and loyalists— with eight hundred men, on the 22d ol 
June, after partial success succumbed to the vigorous resistance, he became 
a prisoner, thereby losing hi s opportunity of being present at Brandywine, 
Germantown, and in much important service with his regiment. 

He was not exchanged until November ioth, 1780, and only then through 
the influence of his brother. Major John Antill, who, differing in sentiment, 
adhered to the Crown. 

Rejoining his regiment at Fishkill, he soon afterwards assisted in beating 
up the quarters of Colonel James de Lancey at Morrisania, for which he earned 
the thanks of Washington, in general orders. 

In August he marched to Philadelphia, joining Colonel Olney's Rhode 
Islanders, and proceeding by the Chesapeake and James River to Yorktown 
and the surrender of Cornwallis. 

Although he had asked Congress to be relieved from service in an earlier 
period of inactivity, he continued therein until the disbanding of his regiment 
in November, 1 7 S3. 

Not found on the Half-Pay Roll, he appears on the Balloting Book of New 
York in the list of Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees, who had united with 
the Americans, to whom lands were granted by the State under the direction 
of its commissioners. 



THE SOCIETY <>F THE CINCINNATI. 155 

The following letter, preserved among the Society's archives, is of in- 
terest : 

" COLDENHAM, July 71I1, [78 1, 

My I (ear Friend, 6 o'clock, 

Retired from the din of arms and a military life clothed with laurels, and the thanks of a 
most grate ful country , all my pay 1111J arrears of pay paid up /,• this day in solid gold, and a 
pension of half pay for Life, I now amuse myself with my I log and my Gun. I send the bearer 
on a little business to General Knox, and at the same time after enquiring aftei the health of 
your good little woman, in which Mrs. Antill joins me, I he;; the favor of you to till my powder 
horn with the Ixst powder you have. If the U. S. insists upon it, I will deduct it out of the 
Guineas I received from them when we were disbanded. 
Compliments to your good Family and all Friends. 
Majm S. Human Yours Sincerely 

West Point — per Express. Knw 1 ; Am 111 

His wife resided in New York during the war, died there on the 3d of 
September, 1785, and was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard. Colonel Antill 
returned to his old home at St. Johns, and also died soon after. His eldest 
daughter, Nannette, married Colour/ Garrit G. Lansing, of Albany, and his 
youngest, Frances, became the wife of Arthur Tappan, Esq. 

It will be seen by " Whiting's Revolutionary Orders of Washington " that his 
useful life was not free from one of those Courts of Inquiry that attend such 
men as venture upon authority, and that after an impartial investigation he 
was honorably acquitted. 

He subscribed his name to the Institution of the Cincinnati with the officers 
of his regiment on the Parchment Roll, with Washington at its head, now in 
the possession of the General Society. 



AARON AORSON 

Captain 1st New York Regiment. 

Was appointed First Lieutenant of the 1st Regiment New York Continental 

Infantry — Colour! Alexander McDougall — on the 28th June, 1775, and served 
with his regiment in Canada and before Quebec until honorably discharged on 
the 15th of April, 1770. He was with Captain Cheeseman when that officer fell 
with General Montgomery at the gate. On the ensuing 26th of June he was 
appointed by Congress First Lieutenant of the 5th Regiment — Colonel Lewis 
Dti Bois. 

The following communication, preserved in the State Records, shows the 
result of the changes made by that officer on his rapid advancement to com- 
mand : 



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Wl I'll, I', , Ii ' .Ml '.I I II] loil, Wllll'll I III nl,l II I Mi MM III 1)1 . illl, , I Ml 1.1. In I I If 

l'i ■ n I ' -in i . . n ill I iill\ .li,.\\ . I, ii n i . i l i .i n ■ 1 1 \ i,l I i. MM ii.ii 1 1 mi l li, ,, i I . 

I, In. Ii I I '.I I'..., |)| I .., . , ,| V ,.li.l, ,| | I ipl i,l (111 ll. HIS "I I II I I I, Ml 1 

"i i i'i i i mi, i Hiii, , i , mi, ni . i ,i., 1. 1 Tin ,,,-,,i | Corporals, who went out I 

ill Kfjnini mi . Ii.im in 1 1, i , ,i, , i , .in, , i . n 1 1. ■ I iii . i, "i i iii i ii. I.m.i i .miji ii,' M Now York 

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In lli. I I. hi. 'i il.l. . Ill, IdNATIIAN l'KAl i ItANI liANll 

I'nn mi. i il i .■. i liAKKKT 11. Van Waisknkr," 

(in iho iisl .'I No\ .nil', i , I. H. Vorson was appointed Captain 

ni iii, r in h i ,.i!i|vin\ ,'! ih,' ;,i u, -Mil, 'in Colonel I'etei Ciansevoorl units 

i iiion I'm i he n* .ii * >n the -. >; ili >'i * letobei .<,/".<'■ Rh lull >i 

\ .ii i, i, ii.nl . , , .nun, n,l, ,i him on a list with some others ol his regimen) .is 

llr u.i'. transferred to the isl New \.>il- on the 

ilidn i .'I its 'mi , isl |. urn. ii \ , i i . in. I ;erved as ■ \fajo in 

that year and until peaee was consummated His name appears on the 11. di 
I'n Roll \\ ii h ilir rank ol I 



|OSIAH l> ACI \\ 

i , \ i , 

Vppointed ■ . of ( Heboid's Company of the ,$d New York Con 

i m.-iii.ii I ni. i n 1 1 \ , Cansevoorl 10th of December, 1776, to rank from 

11st ol Nov 1 mi'. 1 Suh ■. 1 ii \ i led to 1 |ans< n's ( 'ompanj , and 

uppoined A of it on the 7th of January, 1 •■• Was retained with 

ih. ii 1. ml in ih, isl New Vork Continental Regiment ( Van Schaiek's 

on the consolidation >'t 1 1 1 v • New Vork I ine ( «■ ! voo ■ lettei to 

, Clinton, dated from Camp Oran 1 I'own the 16th ol Vugust, t7^°i 

,in,l published in the State Records, displays his interest in this young ofl 

Vfti cxpri ng his opinion in anothci case, that .1 promotion should onl) take 

place on .1 \ ucann . ii,' '-.i\ s 

litem ,',1 In ni .111.1 nilopl ii .!■- .1 in' 
„ 1 , ,, litem to atti ml to 

II . who is in the some pit . .. . mil date his pro 

. M i'Ii 1 .■ the .l.i\ 1., Spon 

ll. was honorahlv discharged the ier\ ci on the jd ol November, 1 -, 
1 1 is name appeal s on 1 he I l.ili l'a\ K 



1 111 ncii'.TY 01 run cinci iati, > , 

John hard [r 

Captain id Giorgio- Regiment 

l '.' >i n | ii 1 1 , i ] ■ ;■) I iiri i Hum i in December, 1803 

1 1 <■ In 1 .mil' .in tssoeiatoi 1 "i Independence in 1775 al fthincbeck, Dulcln 

Count) W.i. 1 In ,f >n 1 1 1 Petci Hard, Commissary- General of ill I'rovii 1 

Pennsylvania, md Mary de N andic, and l)otl lin and brothel in-law to 

the celebrated Dt Sai I Bard, whom fathei Di |ohn Hard, had early 

settled al Hydi Park on the Hud on River, 

Appointed ' aptain. in thi id 1 ' 1 -. 1 1 ol tin Georgia Continental Infantry 

Colonel Samuel filberl in November, 1776, Hi erved on tin 1 pedition 

'mil 1 ..r, 1 Florida in Way, 1777, and .11 tin captun ol Fori Oglethorpe, 

I'rederica, on the rgth Vpril, 1778. w.i. acti 1, engaged in thai yeai in 

the v ty ol Sav< ah, participating in itH defence when attacked by Lieu 

tenant-Colonel Sit \rchibald Campbell, on the 19th December, 1778 ll* 

was taken pi in the action .11 Uriel Creek, (Ja , between General |>>lin 

^uhc and General VugiiHtini Prevost, .on thi |d ol March, 1779 I'akcn as a 

I'M 1 to New Vorl In 1779, he remained then on parole, until exchangi I on 

tin ■ ,i li ul Oi tobei , 1 / ■"■■ 1 Honorably discharged 1 1 1 thi 1 1 ol 

|. .11 \ , 1 7.". 1 . 1 1 1 1 imi appeal on thi Hall Pa) R oil 



SEBASTIAN IJAUMAN 

\fajo> \ ew ) ork Artillet v 

I '.hi 11 al i' 1 .hi! fori "ii the Main, in Gi nnany, on the 'it li ol V pril 17 19, and 
died in New York City on thi 19th of Octobei 1803 He wa educated a in 
Engineer ind '/ tillerist in the Austrian service, becoming a trict di ciplinarian 

1 1 in claimed bj hi 1 I) thai hii fathei ri iding in tin ca tli where Maria 

'I hercsa held hei Courl when al Frankfort 1 vith hei household 

iii lied to Vmerii 1 in con ccjucnci ol a duel, and aid to his mot hei -i ipani h 
lad) al parting " You will heai from me, and I will do lionot to my nanu in 

I In in ,. ' 1 OUtttt 1 /. ' .. i/li, hi 

His wife, Ann Wetzcll, was thi granddaughter of Z?/ Erni t, ol Manhcim, 

.1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 , 1 ol thi Reformed religion • 1 ' 1 1 1 • taki 1 1 1 May, 1775, hi 
appointed Captain ol a militia company in New Yorl German 
in ileei , vhich oluntecrcd, on thi 1 |i li ol September, in a regimen) ol 
. 1 inute Men, known on the Continental 1 labliiihincnl as thi 1 1 Regii t ol 



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New Vork Volunteei I |ohn Lashei ol which, on the list, he wos 

.u i in - i i On thi ;oth of March, 1776, he was appointed in the perma 

iirni Continental servici 1 ol 11 compan) ol New Vork Vrtillery, and 

attached to 1 ll. mm Knox's Regimenl on the 19th ol Vpril following 

He was, on the isl ol lanuary, 1 , . transferred to the id Ri Conti 

nental Corps ol Vrtiller) C 1 imb's and promoted to ! on the 

1 -ill ol Septi nbei 1 In 1 Si 'a he was in command ol West Point, at 

intervals, and selected bj W11 13d ol I December, 1 . on tin reduction 

i>i the .nun, to command the Battalion o( Continental Vrtillery retained, wuh 
, ml until honorabl) discharged, 30th ol |une, 1 78-1 
It was during h ; sen Wesl Point thai he il the maps of that 

posl foi Washin on, which Vrnold secured, and which were discovered in 
Andre's boot I'hese passed from 1 Clinton's pos 1 ■■• to that ol 

\ i\ - II remain in h dil ion 1 le was present 

snrrendei ol < ■ t\\ His, and again made use ol his " ofi onal --kill in 
■ . i.m In-. c>\\ n us< '- s I v hich 

\\ jish igti offit ers requested him to 1 1 w 

Was breveted 1 •■■■* the 1 |ih ol Vpril, 1 Appointed by 

Washington as the first Federal ol New York City in the preceding 

year, a position which he filled with credit until lu> decease. He was also 
ol the State Regiment ol Wtillcr) in New N « >i k from 1785 until it 
ted in dep Ids body, wrapped in the American flag, in the Hutch 

Churchyard at the cornei .'i Nassau ami I ibert) Streets, which honored land 
mark, in the city's >r< was recently taken down, His name appears on 

the Hall Pa) Roll. 

rjERCK BEEKMAN 

1 .11 Kingston, 30th ol Hecember, 1754; died there on the 35th oi 
Uecember, 1 

Was a lin icendanl ol Wilhelmus fteekman, who emigrated from li.'l 

[and idministration ol I Stuyvesant, and who, in 

to the Colon) equivalent to ! 

Heekman was the son *'t [ohannes Reekman and Lydia Van 
en, and became an '■■ foi Independence al Kingston, Ulster 



PHR BOCIKTY 1)1 PUR CINCINNATI I \f) 

County, his home, in | une, 1775 He served ai 1 5 eanl in the Camilla Cam 

paign and before Quel 1 tin |il Regiment, New York Continental Infantry 

Colonel James Clinton Having been 1 ■ imendeil by his brothei officei 

1. 11 1 notion, in apprccial 1 his services, he was tipj Led / in 

< 'attain Nicholas Fi h'i I < P«ui) ol thi id 1 ' ■ ■• in t, New York < '■mi 1 

1 1< 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 \ Col Philip Van Cortlandl on tin 1 1st of November, 1776, 
under a commission, in the possession ol his family, dated 18th ol | une, 1779, 

liui taking effecl 1 1 tin ist ol ! ii pti mb( 1 . 1778 

Was honorablj discharged tin service, on 1 1 n olidation ol the New York 

Line, 1 st ol fanuary, 1781, His name appears on thi Half-Paj Roll 

1 1 »l l N BEEKMAN VVESTBROOK, hii ({real-grandson, was admitted in 

III'. I I ! ' I 1 1 III I .". j ■ ■ I 



WILLIAM BELKNAP' 

Lieutenant in Colonel Jamei Livingston' i />' 

H til Chatlestown, Mass., on the 11 si ol February, 1 > ■ , • Was the cldesl 

son ■■! William and Hannah Belknap, Re ved to Newburgh, N, s , .ii six 

teen years ol age, where he mi I Martha Carscadden on the 10th ol I ary, 

I and died there on the 1 : ~ ; i ii "i I ul) , 1831, He was appointed Lit it tenant 
and Quatiennastet ol the ;<l Regiment, New Yorl I ontinenl ii Infantrj 

( 'olonel James CI in to 775, and served in tin Canadn Campaign Was 

I I .in i< 1 1 ■ .1 to ' 'olonel fohn Nil hoi on' 1 Ri ■• 1 ' lontinenlal Infantry, hi fore 

Quebec, 15th ol Vpril, 1776 ; and on its discharge, ist ol |anuary, 1777, was 
appointed ! ol thi 1 1 Regiment, Canadian Continental Infantrj Colonel 

I 1 Livingston and promoted to I"' Lieutenant on the 6th ol May, 1778 

1 1 1 in reduction and incorporation ol his ■ t, which was one of the 

sixteen additional ■ temporarily organized, he was 1 ablj disi harged thi 

service on the isl ol [anuary, 1781, Was in tin attach iini,., ;i,i ol 

1 1 11 1 , 1 , , , ni'i ubsecj 1 K in 1 he bal tli ol Itillwatei on tin 19th ol 

September, ol Saratoga on the 7th of October, al Whitemarsh from the ;th to 

to the 8th "i December, cantoned at Vallej Forgi 1 1 ith ol l)i her, 

1777, in 1 Mill ni 1 1, 1778, and at the battle ol Monmouth, 28th ol I , 1 

\ ,1, ,1 ,i... ,, In tlv I- lun ol 1 • > lii thi 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1.. 1 

hip 

1 1 In thi '.1 1 ■ .., 1 1 mrli tin ill <luy <>f Ocinl > . Will i up ■ i. ... 

"• 1 '■■■' nl ■. I doll 1 Iwcj third in i ' In r i ' lolin l J I 

llolkniip 1 11..' 1 . . . , 

1 1 '.. 1 ■ 1 1 ■ 



160 Till SOCIl I \ 01 I III CINCINNATI. 

While a Lieutenant in Colonel Livingston's Regiment he was taken by the 
enemy neai New York and sent on hoard a shin in the harbor, but escaped by 
jumping overboard at night. His name appeals on the Half-Pay Roll 

GEORGE STEWART BELKNAP, ins great-grandson, was admitted in 

i 16i 

WALTER BICKER 

( 'aptain in Colonel PattoiCs Regiment. 

I lied on the nth of April, [821 

A resident of Pennsylvania, lie was appointed Lieutenant in the 3d Regi- 
ment, Continental Infantry of that State — < 'olonel John Slue's — 8th of January, 
1770, and Adjutant on the 11th. On the 15th of lime following, his regiment 
marched to New York, and proceeding to Kingsbridge, worked upon the 
erection of Fort Washington. At the battle of Long Island it had constantly 
skirmished with the enemy until the final retreat. On tin- ,;ist they marched 
beyond Kingsbridge, crossed the Bronx River, and moved towards Long 
Island Sound; hut in a few days were ordered back into garrison at Fort 
Washington. Here, on the 16th of November, the regiment was captured with 
the post, and he became a prisoner of war. Upon his exchange he joined 
Colonel John Patton's additional regiment, Continental Infantry, in which he 
had been appointed a Captain in January, 1777. Under the Resolution oi 
Congress, on the 13th of January. 1779, consolidating Ins own with C 
Thomas Hartley's Regiment, he became supernumerary, and was honorably 
discharged. 

He was admitted In- the New York State Society to membership in 1802. 

NICHOLAS BICKER, his son, succeeded him in 1823, 

HENRY KIERSTED BICKER, his great-grandson, was admitted in 1884. 

LEONARD BLEECKEK 

( ' j plain \st New I k Regiment. 

Died i2th of March, 1844. He was appointed Second Lieutenant of Captain 

Marinus Willett's company in the 1st Regiment New York Continental Infantry 

Colonel Alexander McDougall— 28th of June, 1775. Was present at the 

capture of St. Johns by General Montgomery. Promoted to he Lieutenant in 



I Ml SOI ||. | \ in THE CINCINN \ I 1. [6l 

his regimenl i.jth of May. [776. Served at the battles ol Long Island and 
Princeton, and was specially recommended by Brigadier-General McDougall 
for retention on the reorganization ol the New York Continental Line for 
the war. lie was accordingly assigned to the 4th Regiment New York Con- 
tinental Infantry— Co/on, I Henr) B Livingston — from 21st of November, 1776. 
With others, demurring at being placed below juniors in rank, resigned, bul 
was transferred to the 3d Regiment New York Continental Infantry — Colon,/ 
Gansevoort — as reorganized, and on the est of January, 1 7 7 7 , promoted to be 
( 'aptain in the same, 

Ordered to Fort Schuyler, he participated in its defence when invested by 
St. Leger. In 1779 he accompanied a deta< hment under Colonel Van Schack to 
destroy the chief town of the Onondagas, which they effected without the loss 
of a man. In September of the same year he was under the command of 
General James < Ilinton at the battle of Newtown, when- the < Confederacy of the 
Five Nations was defeated, after a very severe conti t. His printed Orderly 
Book shows that he was an observing as well as an active officer. In the 
campaign of [780— '81 he served under Lafayette, and in the later year was 
Brigade-Major to General Ha/en's Brigade at the surrender of Vorktown. 
On the reduction of the army, tst of January, 17S1, h( was transferred to the 
1st Regiment, New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Schaick's — com- 
manded the Light [nfantry Company, and served as Inspector of that corps 
until honorably discharged with his regiment, 3d of November, 1783, with the 
rank ol Major (by brevet , dated on the 30th of September previous. 

An active and energi tii officer, and after devoting the best portion of his 
life to his country in the field, when peace ensued devoted the remainder to 
useful and benevolent duties. For many years he was a Member of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Vice-President of the New York Free School during the 
Presidency ol De Witt Clinton, and Treasurer fur eighteen years of this Society. 
He was of that ancient colonial Dutch family, many of whose descendants 
lived esteemed and respected. His name appeals on the Half-Pay Roil. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON BLEECKER, his son, was admitted in 1844. 



JAMES BRADFORD 

Lieutenant ami Adjutant New York Artillery. 

Killed 4th of November, 1791. Was appointed Muster Master to tin 

Artillery Brigade 12th of September, 1778. Captured, he was paroled to 
Philadelphia, where his family resided, and to negotiate his own eX( hi 



162 THE SOCIETY OF CHE CINCINNATI. 

which he effected on the 14th of < October, 1779. Appointed Second Lieutenant, 
Captain Mutt's Company, 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel 
Lamb — 12th of September, 1779. When exchanged he joined his company 
26th of May, 17S0, and was promoted to be its First Lieutenant 24th of June, 
17S1, and on the same day confirmed by Washington, in General Orders from 
New Windsor, to be an Aide -de-Camp to Lord Stirling at Albany, too late, how- 
ever, to participate with him in his gallant services on Long Island, at Brandy- 
wine, Germantown or Monmouth. Rejoining his regiment, he was appointed 
its Adjutant on the 7th of June, 1783. When the Continental Army was dis- 
banded a garrison was retained at West Point, and pursuant to Washington's 
orders, 23d of December, 1783, his regiment of infantry and two companies 
of artillery were continued in service until after 1st of January, 1 7 S 4 . On the 
20th of June, 17S4, this corps was disbanded, except Captain John Doughty's 
company, now Battery 1'', 4th Regiment, U. S. Artillery— the only original 
company now surviving — to which Lieutenant Bradford was attached and 
retained there on duty. On the 1 2th of April, 1 7S5, this company was recruited 
and credited to New York's quota of the troops then called tor by the Conti- 
nental Congress for frontier service. On the 7th of August, 1786, Lieutenant 
Bradford was promoted to be its Captain, rice John Doughty created Major- 
Commandant of the Corps of Artillery. Captain Bradford fell, in St. Clair's 
dis. ist runs defeat by the Miamis in Kentucky, with a large portion of his 
command. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

[ACOB BRADFI >RD, his brother, was admitted to the Society in his right 
in 1S03. 



CALEB BREWSTER 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Died 13th of February, 1S27. Was a resident of Brookhaven, Suffolk 
County, where he became an Associator on the 8th of June, 1775 ; and at a 
meeting of the four companies of that town — at Coram, on the 27th of March, 
1776 — he was elected Second Lieutenant of the company, so named under the 
State organization. On the ensuing 21st of November he was appointed an 
Ensign in the second company ot the 4th Continental — or regular — Infantry, 
dating from the 24th of February 1776, on the recommendation of its Colonel 
—Henry B. Livingston — with whom he had served in Canada. Was appointed 
First Lieutenant 21I Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINN VI I. i <■ \ 

ist of January, 1777, and promoted to be Captain- Lieutenant* on the 23d "I 
June, 1780. Honorably discharged the service, with the majority of his regi- 
ment, 3d of November, 1783. 

Having been severely wounded in the service, he became a Pension. 1 
under the provisions of the Art of Congress, 1 ith of August, 1790. 



JAMES BREWSTER 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Was appointed Second Lieutenant, serving in Captain Andrei Moodie's com- 
pany, 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's— ist of 
January, 1777. Was promoted to be First Lieutenant 8th of November, 1778, 
and Captain Lieutenant on the 8th of April, 17S2. Honorably discharged the 
service, with most of his regiment, on the 3d of November, 17.S3. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



DAVID BROOKS 

Assistant Clothier General. 

Born m 1756. Died in Dutchess County on the 30th of August, 1838. 
In 1776 he was a Lieutenant in Colonel John Slice's 3d Pennsylvania Conti- 
nental Infantry, and was captured at the surrender of Fort Washington on the 
16th of November, 1776. Exchanged in 1778, he was assigned to the 3d Penn- 
sylvania Continental Infantry —then Colonel Thomas Craig's— and appointed 
Regimental Quartermaster until appointed Assistant Clothier General in the 
Continental service, in which responsible post he won Washington's confidence. 
At the close of the war he settled in Dutchess County, and was for six years its 
Member of the New Noil. Assembly and Representative in Congress. In 1797 
he was appointed Commissioner, making the treaty witli tile Seneca Indians, 
and subsequently, for sixteen years. Chief - Justice of Dutchess County, and was, 
at the time of his decease, an Officer of Customs. It is recorded thai Colonel 
Brooks served with merit throughout the war, respected and esteemed for 
fidelity and rigid devotion to its details as well as for the integrity of his private 
life. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

* In 1 In Vet of Con res for the establishment of the American Army, pa ed la was 

t of the Field Ol I ind \\ Company. The Lieutenant ol thi I have the 

rank of Captain Lieutenant." 



i(. i nil SOCIETY 01 i in C1NCINNA ri. 

JOSEPH BROWN 

Surgeon 7/// Pennsylvania Regiment. 

Was appointed 5 of the 13th Regiment Pennsylvania Continental 

Enfantr) Colonel Waltei Stewart's in June, 1777. Transferred to the 7th 
Pennsylvania Continental Infantry C William Irvine's — 1st of July 177^- 

On the incorporation of his former regiment with the 2d Regiment, under a 
resolution of the Executive Council, 3d of April, 1778,110 became a super- 
numerary by juniority, and was honorably retired on the 1-1 ol January, 1781, 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll, 

Hi- was admitted to membership In the New York State Societj of the Cin- 
cinnati in [81 



ROBERT BURNET Jr 

<t tenant oj V. .-, York Artillery. 

Born j:i1 of February, 170.' ; died ^<>tli of November, 1854. 

He was the son of James Burnet and grandson of Robert Burnet, the first of 
the name who settled in Little Britain. Was appointed Lieutenant 2d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Artillery— ( Lamb's— aSth of June, [7S1, and was 

assigned to Captain William Steven's company bj Regimental Orders, dated at 
West Point on the 29th of June. Honorably discharged, with a portion ol his 
regiment, on the isi of January, 1784, Served at the siege ot Vorktcwn, and 
was subsequently in the cantonments on the Hudson and at West Point until 
the close of the war. 

He married Rachel, the daughter of Jacob R, De w itt, on the 9th of June, 
1784. His children w> < nlon, Charles, Jane, Moses He Wat. 

Mary De Witt, and Robert who died young. 

He was the last surviving original member oi the New N ork State Society, 
dying at Newburgh, N. V.. near the place <>i the "Cincinnati's " birth. 

ROBER r BURNE V. his grandson, and eldest son of the eldest son Alex- 
ander Clinton Burnet, was admitted in r8 



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AARON BURR 

Lieutenant-Colonel oj Malcom'i Regiment. 

Born on the 6th oi February, 1 756, at Newark, N. J., in the parsonage of the 
First Pre byterian Church. Died on the 14th of September, 1 ;6, on Staten 
Island. 

He was tin- son <if 1 In- Reverend Aaron Burr, the founder and first Pn idenl 
of the Collegi ol New Jersey, from which he graduated with honors in 1772, 
and in 1803 the degree of LL.D. was also conferred on him. 

He entered the Continental Army in July, 1775, as a volunteer, and was 
stationed foi a shorl time al Winter's Hill, and al Cambridge, near Boston, 
forming one of that illustrious band who were the first to resist the oppressions 
of England, and to a ert by force ol arms the right of the American Colonies 
to be represented in the British Parliament, or to be exempt from taxes imposed 

by their authority. In the same year he ji id Arnold as a volunteer, and 

marched with his detachment from Newburyport through the Wilderness to 
Quebec. In the assault on the 31s! ol December, 1775, he was an Aide-de- 
Camp to General Montgomery when he fell mortally wounded. 

Major Richard Piatt, an eye-witness of the scene, testified thai 

" Bun Li -I Ihi d made man) effort i to [1 ad th< m on, and stimulati d thi m to 

1 nti 1 the lower town 

While the Reverend Samuel Spring, Chaplain in Arnold'- expedition, 
di ici ibes 

" I ittle Bun hastening from thi fin ol the enemy up to his knees in snow, with Mont- 
g-omi ry's body i>n liis shoulder." 

General < lullum has recently 1 laimed, in his interesting sketch of that officer, 

that liurr was, at the time he fell, with Arnold in his attai I on the other side 
ol the 1 ity, a conclusion whii h Lossing sustains. 

[rving, in his " Life of Washington," gives the following : 

" On the evening ol thi fifth .1". VI< paid a visit to the Ice Battery. The heavy 

artillery from the walls had repaid its effectual fire with ample usury ; the brittle rampart-, had 
been shivered like glass, and several of thi guns had been rendered u 1 [1 fust 1 thi G 

arrived ishol from thi Fortr mo nted om ol I ■ gun and di abled man) m n. \ 

immediately following was also as destru< 

" ' I his is warm work, sir,' sai'l Montgomery to ' aptain Lamb. 

" ' It is, indeed, and no plao foi you, sir.' 

" ' \\ liy SO, < 'aptain !' 

•■ • Because the igh ol 1 hen to bi :'!■ 1 without the lo of you 

irreparable. ' 



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" I'he General saw the in cy ol thi battery, and on returning gave Lamb permission 

t.> lo.no ii whenever he thought proper. Die veteran waited until after dark, when, securing .ill 

uns, he abandoned the ruined redoubt. 

" The General on his visit was attended by Aaron Burr, whom he had appointed .is his 
Lamb wondered that he should encumber himself with such .1 boy. liio 
coolness and self-possession with which the youth mingled in this dangerous scene, and the fire 
which sparkled in his eye, soon convinced 1 amb, according to his own account, that 

After tho repulse of the Americans he remained with Arnold as his • 

until joining the main army at Morristown, N. J., in May. 1776 \ 
short time afterward he became attached to the suit ol 1 Putnam as an 

and was with him in the battle of Long Island, and the subse 
quent retreat. 

Stone says in his article, " Hie Language of Flowers" : 

" When the beautiful an. I accomplished daughter ol ; ' crieffe, ><l the British ( orps 

ineers, was captured and taken into the f.unilx of 1 Putnam, thou commanding 

. West Point, Burr, who was s and at the same time her admirer, detected her painting 

ami grouping icsitions of tin il thai Fortress, to be finally 

presented to the expet father upon her release." 

Appointed in July. 177;. Lieutenant I of Malcom's Regiment — one of 

oi thi' sixteen raised by Congress for the wai and which he commanded for 

nearly two years in the absence of its Colonel, lie commanded a Brigade 

Stirling's Division, of which his regiment formed a part, in the battle 

ol' Monmouth. 

He was, during the Winter of 1778 9, stationed in Westchester County, 
\ \ . where Ik- was eminently successful in checking the depredations com- 
mitted by the British 1 ight 1 torse, under t ' .". •...' IV- I ancey. I orl time 
he was in command of West Point, and on the 10th oi March, 1770. resigned 
his commission in the Army on account of ill health. 

In April, 17S2, he began to practice law at Ubany, V \ .. but in 17S3 went 
Vw York City, where he was elected a member of the New York Legisla- 
ture in 1 7 S j and 17. )S. Appointed I New York State -'7th 
oi September, 1 7S9. 

He was appointed 1 7 s 1 a Commissioner oi Revolutionary Claims; a 
member of the United States Senate from New York in 1701 and until 

179s. 

1 in Eli 1 re, ill 1801, cast for Jefferson and Burr each seventy- 

three votes, and was then referred to the House oi Representatives, where, 
the til h ballot, the choice for President fell to Jefferson and Burr was 

declared I 

In 1S01 he was President of the Convention which revised the Constitution 
of the Slate of New York. 



I III <>l II I ', r, I I III I I VI I. 167 

His duel with Hamilton, on the nth ol July, 1 | caused him to li 
New York and travel throughout tin- South, until the opening I gress, 
when he resumed his seal as President of the Senate 

Th' lure in his life, for which he was arrested on thi charged 

treason, was known a "Burr' Conspira rhi trial took p nond, 

Va . In August, [807, tvhi re Wa hington [rving saw him, and said : 

"li' ' merly, but lal." 

Mr. fa) I11 recently told us how tin- opening ol thi 1 h Archives by 
the officers of the Republic has di the intrigues of their predi 

and shown how General Wilkinson, being then Governor of the Territory of 
Louisiana and in the American sei 1 Burr and 

as it is < la d, operating with him, was in facl in the paj of France to ' 

a common cheme, from which hi adroitly withdrew, and left his old com- 
panions-in-arms to bear the entire reproach. 

\fi'T hi ci 11 ii Burr went to Europe in [808 living in extri erty 

in London and Paris. Returning in 1812, just before tin; declaration of war 
with Greal Britain, he u umed th< profi on ol the law in the City of New 
York. His chief support, however, being derived from a pension as Colonel in 
the Revolutionarj \xmy. II' pa ''Mi'' la t days of his life among his numer- 
ous and influential friends ami relatives, who treated him w kindness, 

cially his cousin, fudge Ogden Edwards, at wl Island 
li hi homi intil hi died in his eighty-first yi 

His first wilr was Theodosia Bartow, the widow of General Augustine 
t who died 5th of May. 17 16 by whom his only surviving child was 
his daughter 1 >, the wife "i Josi ph Vllston Gi ry 1 iro 

lina. She had but one child, a son, Aaron Burr Allston, who died at an early 

age. Hi i' "' 1 '" her, to whom he « ted and ed 

dan) to fill the place of a son, disclose whal intend' 

discern his disappointmenl and failures in life, which lie was too proud to 
vindicate publicly. The sad fate of his daughter, whom he survived twenty 
, is well known by the confi ion of the pirati 1 

lli ubsequenl marriagi with Madame Jun nty-eight, 

doubtless ti I his fortune, and his failure to contri as he 

had probably anticipated, 1 ausi d their 1 

Hi i' mains were buried by the side of hi 1, and his 

ed with military ceremonies. Some years afterward his rela 

ted a suitable granite hi at his grave. 

Through all his lifi there glimi trait of cl rising above the 

common estimate, which, in a cai con istenl integrit) and purity, w 

like his generosity to his dep , have aided in illuminating his memory. 



l68 ['HE SOCIETY OJ rHE CINCINNATI. 

lli^ memoirs have been published by M. I.. Davis in 1836 and by James 
Parton in 1S57, His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll.* 

JONATHAN BURRALL 

(v Paymaster-General. 

Born in 175,;. Died .11 Goshen, V \ . 18th oi November, 1834. 

He joined the army under Major-General Philip Schuyler in 1776 in the 
Northern Department, Appointed Assistant Paymaster in [777. 

Promoted to be Deputy Paymaster-General in 1782. Was honorably dis- 
charged the service 1st of January, 1784. 

After the war Congress appointed him the Commissioner for settling the 
accounts of the Quartermaster and Commissar) Departments on the 8th of 
May, 1 786. 

Subsequently he was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, and after- 
wards the Cashier of the United States Branch Hank of New York. Prior to 
his death he was 1 hosen President of the Bank of America in New York City. 

He was an original member of the late Connecticut State Societ) of the 
Cincinnati, but associated with the New \ oik in 1793. His name appears on 
the Halt- Pay Roll. 

WICK 1 1AM HOFFMAN, his grandson, was admitted in his right in 1857. 
lie was in rSSi, appointed Secretary oi Legation at St. Petersburg, Russia. 



* tWi>tt<*/ Burr, in 17S1, when his friend, ftfajot Alden, realizing the temporary embarrassment 
«<t his circumstances and the necessit) "t a future profession upon leaving the s< vi< . wrote him 
from Raritan on the 1 5 nary : 

" If it wi ioIuci your woes to know there is a li m as its own, that heart is mine, * * I 

know their force, I have felt them in a!! theii pungency. A want ol uniformity, in the mode and object of my 

1 en yours, fhcre is a persevering firmness I i w 

conquer embarrassment, and in nppiw ing con i i mnoi fail to pi 

pow< ■■ 1 sit; 1 '■■.■■ 'wi thaU shun misfortunes or shall learn [ loment of 

When out taken with determined firmness, 

v . * * * These are mj halcyon «!.i\s Let us taste them 

together. W c shall mutually heighten their relish. Lei us rescue some moments of ro yment from the 

1 impetuous nine Friendship shall smooth the rugged path «•! si irtue cheer the way. 

"Ill,/ ; in. in is favorable to tin- pursuit, Vou shall have access to the library and 

without the eust try expei Vi ' studies 

with me, undei j ■ \\ V\v two boys I wish you to insti ■ and the 

hearts, V frown is punishment the) I ■ i day, will I think he suffn 

theirinsti i rhere arc hours us manyasan) one i to advantage ; and 

our will be full) ■ you by the assistance ii .,'-.. 

■ . igrcss. 

" If it is possible we live together, A me : we shall al least meel ■ 01 

. \ \\ t will regulate our own amusements and pursuits. H 

Vour nil Iv a general maintainance in such .» situation. \ ou shall 

have six t) which is more than I expend here, Vou will find it impossible to s 

othing. It from this short sketch, you think the situation adapted to your views, ol 
which E nt me immediately that 1 nun- pn eption. * " n 



I M I SOCIE IV OF nil CINCINNATI. 169 

DUNCAN CAMPBELL 

Lieutenant in Colonel James Livingston's Canadian Continental Infantry. 

I lied in March, 1807. 

Appointed, in 1775,;! Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment ol Canadian Conti- 
nental [nfantry — Colonel James Livingston's. It was, as well as' the 2d Regi- 
ment — Colonel Moses Hazen's — recruited largely from residents or refugees 
from New York, then found in Canada. He resigned in 1779. His latei 
years were clouded by misfortune, he and his wife becoming subjects for the 
Society's benevolent provision, He lefl no issue. 



JOHN CAPE 

Lieutenant ist New Jersey Regiment, 

He was from the roth of January, 1776, a Lieutenant in Captain Matthew 
Freeman's Compan) ol the is! Regiment of Minnie Men, Militia [nfantry, of 
Middlesex Comity, N.J. — Colonel Nathaniel Heard's— until the 4th of June, 



could I write to you ? How divim lence? Never again harbor I i a urmisi that dcrogat 

from my sincerity. My health is nearly establish) <1 I have not enough todespisi thi blessing, bul enough I 

ever) • njoymi nl of life. Adieu, my friend, may thai cheerfulness ol which you have been robbed return, and 

be as i" > inn a ■ j ' ten ril 01 mj affei 1 

I" this \fajoi rVlden replied from Fairfield, 28th of February, 1; 1 
"Youi letter of the 15th pleas* 3 me. Vou havi .1 heart that feels ; a heari susccptibli to tcndci friei 

I .it. has not a tingle charm 1 mpan with such sensations, You knov liov ti ucli emotions 

Happj 1 1 iii''.<- expel the V si pangs, ['here is no such thing as real Jiap] \ ' I - 1 it is but a 

delusion. We maki 1 1 uri m .1 troubl Fi iendship will heighti n the and moderate the 

other. 

"1 havi been tortured with the anxietj oi suspense ll hai gi en me the mosi 1 1 distress. It 

disordered my mind ; at times alm< ■ drovi ■ V paii d iw the effect but could nol i& 

ture the causi Vou I , rate thi feeling of my heart ; you alone ar< in po 1 sion of thai evidence 

which will convicl mi ol mj weakness ; ol m: wani ol fortitude. I dare entrusl you I feel the influence of your 
friendship Po a heart like yours, this will prove thi inccrity and 

" I bid adieu to camp, having completed my business, with the thanks dl oui worth) C01 andci in-Chief 

for his attention t<> my charai ti 1 1 hi di 1 harge he gave rm equalli d mj wi ihc 1 and 1 - ■ di d mj 1 ■ pi 1 I ition 

I have enjoyed the most rational sati faction foi thrci day pas) 1 hav< com iced student. Dr. fohi 

given 1 ■. plan ol tudies, and frei occ< ■ to hi library. My ambitio ol great, nor my views unbounded, I 

shall proporl tl an to thi object. It I persevere with attention, I have omcthing mon than wishc to 

build upon. Nothing within the compass of my ambition, thai is justifiable, will be lefl untried, to gratify my 

reasonabh de in I knov that your request proceeded e ■ from foui i d hip foi me, and thai vou fell 

happy that il was in youi powci to oblige me, I feel thi I l youi 1 ndm «, bul musl den) mj ■ 

ome months with my friend, My time is short ; age pn ■• up 1 

to iny country, for which I have received n oipensation, It gives me plcasi hcai thai youi health i such 

■ can bi thankful for the bli ire in a situation 1 joy yourscll n ■ I irt i in 

cerely interested in youi happiness. Let mi know your feeling that I may know how to refine mine, *^ 1 

shi| I letters idd l continual charm to my life and will always please the hi irt feet ion of 

■■ \ ..in with '"> .nl' R. ALDEN." 



I III S0CI1 l \ OF I III i IN< iw \ n. 



1 7 ~<>. Under the act of the General Assembly of that State, 27th of November, 
1776, raising four regiments of volunteers for United States service, he was 
incorporated with Freeman's Company, in Colonel Charles Read's Regiment, 
New Jersey State Infantry. 

Honorably mustered out by expiration of its service isl oi April, 1777. 
Under subsequent acts of that Assembly, he served again as a Lieutenant in 
Colonel Asher Holmes' Regiment of [nfantry, from the 9th of October to the 
20th of December, 1770, and from the 7th of June, 1780, until he resigned, 
after three and one-half years' service His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll a-- /., /tenant in New [ersej 



NEHEM1AH CARPENTER 

Ensign 2 \ .. I R , < ent. 

He was an Associatoi for Independence, signing at Newburgh, Orange 
County, on the 6th of July, 1775, ami named in the Report of the Enlisting 
Committee to the Provincial Congress, now filed among the State archives, the 
following being a portion ol it : 

" \\ 1 Inmenl gentlemen, thai ii is our unhappiness thai there is such .1 number not signing 
who are the most daring presumptuous villians, often threatening life propert) and individuals, 
damning Congress and Committees, declaring the) will join oui enemies if opportunity pn 

- . insider oursi expo icd to th< ii nciples, 

unless some method can be fallen upon for preventing them in carrying into execution their 
wicked designs, which we submit to your wisdom, conceiving ourselves safe under your wise pro- 
tection." 

Appointed 5th of January. 1776, Quartet master of C Isaai Nichols' 

Regiment o\ Minute Men, organized at Goshen. In the Committee of Vrrange 
ments, tSth of December preceding, General James Clinton recommends 
him, as the Quartet astet ol his late regiment, the 2d New York Continental 
[nfantry— to which Carpenter had been transferred to bo on tin- reorga 
tion appointed in a new regiment in plaee ol the one named, saying : " lie will 
aeeept. ami in Ins opinion is much better qualified." The Line having been 
reduced by the resignation of many valuable officers who refused to be super- 
seded, lie was consequently transferred, with the same rank, dating from the 
2istoi November, 1776, to the 5th Regiment ol New York Continental [nfantrj 
— Col v. .' 1 cwis l>n Bois. 

lie wa- in the assault on Fort Montgomery on the 6th of October, 1777. ami 
having been captured, was not exchanged until the 25th oi October, 17S0. when 
he was appointed Ensign on the 2d New Vork Regiment. On the 1st ol Jan 
nary, 1781, he was transferred, on the consolidation of the New York Line, to 




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I III 01 II I V OF THE CINCINNATI. 17 I 

the 2tl New York Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt — with which he served 
until placed on waiting orders, June, 17^3. 

Honorably discharged with his regimenl on tin 3d of November following. 
Ili name appears on the Half-Pay Roll with the rank of Lieutenant. 



JAMES CHRYSTIE 

Captain $d Pennsylvania Regiment, 

Born 13th "l January, 1750. Died in June, 1807. 

He was the eldest sun of John Chrystie and Janet Clarkson, his wife, and 
born at Hales' Quarry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. After completing his 
studies he came to America, landing at Philadelphia early in the year 1775. 

There he enlisted in the Pennsylvania Regiment under his friend Lieutenant- 
Colonel Thomas Craig, and with it, under Morgan, followed Arnold in his 
expedition through the northern wilderness to join Montgomery. 

Appointed First Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Continental 
Infantry — Colonel Arthur St. Clair — on the 5th of January, 1776, and promoted 
to Captain in the same on the nth of November, 1776— while under Wayne at 
Ticonderoga— to rank from the 9th of August, 1776. This regiment, after 
July of that year, being designated as the 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Conti- 
nental Infantry- Colonel Thomas Craig. 

He was transferred on the 1 st of January, 1783, to the zd Regimenl Penn- 
sylvania Continental Infantry -Colonel Richard Hampton — on the consolidation 
of the Pennsylvania Line. 

He was appointed Major, by brevet, in the United Stat Vrmy on the 30th 

of September, 1783, and honorably discharged with his regiment, being then its 

senior Captain, on the y\ of November, 1783. 

( in the detection of Arnold's plot at West Point, Washington sent for 1 'hrystie, ami told him 
he had selected him for the speedy performance of the very important service of proci 

with all possible expedition to West Point examining the state of that garrison in every p 
and visiting all the intermediate posts for the same purpose, making his business known only to 
their commanding officers, enjoining their entire secrecy, and committing nothing to writing. 
Here Washington paused, when Chrystie inquired it he had any further orders. H 
" Yes, 1 very serious one ; that is, Captain Chrystie, that you are not to lei me hear of 

your being taken prisoner — do you understand me ?" " Perfectly well, sir. You shall not heat 
of that event," replied thi ' 'aptain ; and conscious of the trust, mounted and set out at once, and 
accomplished it in so short a time that Washington, in returning to headquarters, supposed he 
had been interrupted ; but his report in detail soon relieved his anxious mind. 

He married Mary, the daughter of the Reverend. John Albert Wygandt in 
1781. After the declaration of peace, with Lieutenant Abijah Hammond, he 

established a real estate business in New York City, but from which he shortly 



1 72 nil S0C11 IN OF ["HE CINCINNATI, 

withdrew, joining Wayne's Expedition against the [ndians, and served in the 
campaign ami in the battle oi the River Miami on the 20th of August, 1794. 
Subsequently he established himself in the china ware business at 33 Maiden 
Lane. He was elected Vice President of the St. Andrew's Society. Before his 
death he revisited Ins mother in Scotland, with his eldest son Thomas, leaving 
linn u ilh her to be educated. 

Dying m New York, be was interred in a vault in the Wall Street Presby- 
terian Church with military honors His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll.* 

rHOMAS CHRYSTIE Major), his eldest son, was admitted in his right 
in 1S07. He died unmarried on the [8th of October, 1815, 

JAMES CHRYSTIE Rev.), his second son. was admitted in 1819, He 
died November. 1863, without having subscribed bis name to the Roll. 

THOMAS WITTER CHRYST1 E, the eldest son of the last, was admitted 
in 1867, ami served tor many years on the Standing Committee ami as a dele- 
gate to the triennal meetings of this Society. 



rhe following article was published in tin \ . t. . iath of July, 1S79, under the 

Stor) ol Ston) Point," as 

I MM \1\ i HRYS HE'S I \SK. 
I nil da) is now bringing nearer the centennial celebration of the capture ol Stony Point. 
The hour-hand of the clock will soon again point to clock \. M., (6th of July," when, too 

years before, Wayne stood within the bravely won fortress and wrote to General Wash- 

ington these words : 

11 Th< fori ind ■ m are our Our o :rs and men behaved like men who are 

determined to bi frci 

It is difficult .it this day to appreciate full) the value of tin- achievement, but without doubt 
as its centennial draws nigh tin- public inter< st increases, and an account .'I some ol the prelimi- 
n.iM and more secret, but not the less important, movements, which ended in securing this 
brilliant victor) to out troops, made as the) wen undei private and confidential instructions and 
military orders from Washington, Hamilton and Wayne, becomes speciall; 1 showing 

tlii' masterl) skill and militaiy preparation with which this famous attack was planm a. and also 
mi bringing in light persons and event which so far seem to have escaped the historians of the 
times. I In '•i' documents are perfect!) authentic, having been .mi. ng tin- private papers ol their 
rei ipient at the time of his decease, are now in tin- possession of his tnts, and haw never 

In i. - , been pul ilished. 

It must be borne in mind that when Sii Henry Clinton, on th< i-t ol June, 1779, accom- 
the capture by the British troops of Verplanck and Ston) Points, that event, equally 
uni pected and startling, cart ill alarm and anxiet) to "in Commander-in-Chief. Says 

1 .'-.mm;; ■ " the loss of thesi forts was greatl) lamented b) V\ ashington." N"t onl) West Point 
I. ut .ill the adjacent posts ..ml garrisons in the Highlands were suddenly in jeopardy, ami separated 
as the) win- from each other by almosl impassable roads, through .1 countr) abounding in 
nd precipices, unless immediately put on their guard, might ver) easil) be 
captured in detail by their bold ami vigorous foe. Ami so it happened that to wati h the enem) 
in his new acquisition to a certain by actual inspection his strength, the nature and shape ol his 
works at Ston) Point, to learn as tar as i>,.smM. his plans ami intentions, ami. above all, to give 



I i M I \ 01 I II I ii NCINN A II. 173 

MATTHEW CLARKSON 

Major and Aide-de-Camp. 

The following sketch furnished by Mr. Clarltson. 

Bom in New York 17th of October, i7.v s - Died 25th of April, r S ^ 5 . 

His father and grandfather both held responsible public positions with 
approved fidelity and ability. His great-grandfather, Matthew Clarkson, was 
for thirteen years Secretary of the Province, in which he arrived so commis- 

notice at onci to our posts in the thickets and fastnesses of the Highlands became an object ol 
paramount importance. Requiring as it did no small amounl ol coolness and sagacity, coupled 
with military skill and experience, an) trustworthy officer possessing those qualifications suddenly 
became much in requesl al the headquarti rs "I the 1 !ommander-in-Chief, which at this lime were 
at or near Smith's Clove, in the rear of Haverstraw. 

It iliil not take long to find such a one in the command of Wayne, then in the Highlands. 
Captain James Chrystie, of the 3d Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, had, early in 1775, become a 
Lieutenant in that regiment, and almost immediately joined the detachment of Pennsylvanians 
and \ irginians who, under Daniel Morgan, followed Arnold in his wintry expedition from 1 'am 

bridge, up the Kennebec River, to join in General Montg ry's attack on Quebec. With 

Arnold, Morgan and Lamb he had climbed, on the memorable night of December 51st, 1775. the 
frozen ramparts of that city, and stood with them in its streets only to learn that Montgomery 
had jusl a moment In-fore gloriously met a soldier's death. He had taken part in the movements 
of our troops at Isle aux Noix, the Sorel and St. John, ami had won his Captaincy at Ticonderoga. 
Under Wayne's eye he had fought at Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth; had been with 
him in the dark and bloody night of Paoli, and with him had passed through that Winter that 
tried men's souls at Valley Forge. Quiet and unobtrusive, yet thorough when on routine duty, 
he had always proved himself in time of action a brave, vigorous, faithful and sagai ious Captain, 
and had ever shown himself equal to any emergency thai the warfare of the times put in his way. 

And now his General, who had seen and known him " often tried " and rji vi 1 fo I wanting, 

well knew him also to lie the very man for the important and secret service so urgently called for. 

Anil so it came to pass that on the evening "I the fourth day alter Stony Point had fallen into 
Sir 1 lenry Clinton's hands, while ( aplain I hrvslic was on duty at an outpost in the Highlands, 
there was put into his hands tin- following order : 

" 'I'lM in 1 ■, I : 1 INC, I |!h, 177.). 

Sir: General St. Clair orders me to inform you that his / vccll >■ 1 General Washington lias occasion for 

you immediately. You will, therefore, report yoursell al headquartei 1 on youi wa) call al Get* ral St. Clair's, 

I am your obedii nt, ISAAC lit' II, Id;, I ■ 

To Captain James Chrystie, 3d Pennsylvania Regiment." 

On the same evening Captain^ hrystie received the following, in General Hamilton's hand 
writing, with the autograph signature of Washington : 

" i aptain Chrystie is sent by me to give information and make inquiries, ['he full 1 1 infidei be 

reposed in him. G. WASHING I 1 >N, 

Pi imp 1 1 in, June 4th, 1779, " 

And under the same date, and on the same occasion, the following in General Hamilton's 
handwriting : 

" Captain Chrystie, dispatched b) bis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, on very important businesses 
hen i'\ authorized to impress horses by die way. My his Excellency's command. 

Headquarters, Pom <, June 4th, 1 ALEX. HAMILTON, lide-dt I imp." 

How Captain Chrystie sped on his journej can only be gathered from the military 
writings of that date, though the result of his silent and arduous duties afterwards pi il 

11,1 themselves, He had.no doubt, learned at Ii I I Quebec, from Arnold, the 



i i I'ltK. SOCIETY Ol I'HK CINCINNATI, 

sioned, on the iSth ol January, 1691, and was the sou ><i an English nor 1 
foi u" l 1 ■. i< . ol .\ fnmih lo ent in Yorksli 1 

Karl) in the Autumn ol 1775, when not >' c ' seventeen, he entered upon his 
military carcei as a private in .1 corps ol American Fusileers, under the com 
muml ol Rudolph kitzema. Phe following, addressed to ' '.- |ohn Vandei 
hilt, ol Kii 1 nty, then .1 member of the Provincial Congress, displays his 

i .is .1 \ outh: 

Vmhilious of serving my < -i milium capa< ) ml of an appo 

menl to 1 commission in the llsittnlion to he raised in ihis pro\ 

I am, Sir, \ mil vei ) liumbli Sei vant, 

Nkw York, lath Kcbrunr\ MATTHEW >l VKKSON 

In that year he served for .1 time when probably waiting foi the position 
so sought in ( losiah Smith's Regiment of Minute Men, of Suffolk 

County, raised for the purpose ol protecting Long Island from invasion and 
ravage, .mil with it-- cooperation with the forces under 0', ■ 1 Putnam and 
Sullivan, in the battle there. In the next year, joining the Northern \ \ 

favorite maxim ol that yd unsullied soldier, ami was often foml of repeating, that in 

wut expedition was equivalent lo strength, for on the next morning .hum hi . , Pomp 
S Washington red 1 Uriel ami hast) report from 1 Malcolm, 

then on ilutj in the II ited "On tlu- Road from 1 ' [tuner) to the 1'mn.uv. 

11 \ m , h ■ statin); that ". 1 hrystie has been here on his business," 

and the show the argent) ol his mission, as well .is his 

conviction that no time «.i- to l« lost Eighteen days after this, ami on 
\\ 1 important information acquired (luring that interval, rei >vei 

his headquarters ■ New \\ Iv west bank ol the Hudson, at mansion, nt 

that time standing on the brick yard proper!) now owned b) ten, .in, I near him and 

about lifteon minutes' walk north, also on tin 1 . . on the site of the mansion at Windsor 

Hill, Kii,- thi W. Chrysti' «.i- the home and hi 

Clinton, whose knowledge and . ce ol the forts .m,l vai in the High 

hie .is it had been to him cost I) li tna\ be said in passing that, without 

doubt, it was while in \,» Windsot that the attack on S > y Waym was planned and 

matured 1>\ w \ irious changes were at once made in commands at s in the 

imls, and in particulai v\ ivne, on the first >>i July, is put in command ol the 

it lufantn and encamped .11 the Hunderberg, near I on Monl 

On the 4th of Jul) follow Washington writes from New \\ ' expressing 

his anxiet) for the immediate tctaking ol Sunt) IVint, in his letti 1 close and accurate 

it ion ol that fortress in .ill its details and surroundings, .is much so .1- il he had himsell been 
\ ippears to h»i the eye or eluded the \\ c's immediate 

letokens his siety I il once the designs ol his commander, foi on tli 

da\ ,il' >■ w i'ue's " ol that date jusl rece'd," tells him ho has 

the Quartermaster to furnish him "the Espontoons," and then gives him the details of 
how il-. sponding in almost ever) respect with \\ ayne's carr) ing out of 

Vml now the hal >pen, and the men ol •■ ming to take 

their places and to pla\ their parts « o issued by the gallant 1 

Richard Hull is 10 lead tin « assault, dated the day after Wasli 

ington's last to W 1 

\ .... in, to the south sate of the 

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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. I 75 

operating to repel the advance of Burgoyne, lie was wounded in the engage- 
ment at Fort Edward, while attempting to rally the fugitives of General St. 
Clair's retreating force. At Saratoga he volunteered effective service to Colonel 
Morgan, and in acting as Aide-de-Camp to General Arnold, in the hottest of 
the battle of Saratoga. Was present at the surrender of General Burgoyne. 
Appointed, in 1779, Aide-de-Camp to General Lincoln, then commanding the 



and Kind's Ferry, taking great care to keep an advance and small flank parties for the preservation of your com- 
mand. When you rise the hill (which is but smalli beyond Parr's, you will post proper sentries and wait for further 
orders, leaving a subaltern and Sergeant and 12 men in the Dunderberg, with orders to wait to convey any person 
or party to join you. I am, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, RICHARD BUTLER, C^[»»r/. 

irth July, 1779. 

To Captain Chrvstie." 

Three days after this (on the 14th) Washington writes to Wayne that he has "reflected on 
the advantages- and disadvantages of delaying the proposed attempt," and says, "you may, 
therefore, carry it into execution to-morrow night, unless something new." &c. The historians 
of these times lay great stress upon the fact that on the evening of the assault Gonial Wayne, by 
posting guards at proper places, had cut off all access to and egress from the garrison at Stony 
Point, who were thus kept in complete ignorance of what was impending. But the historians in 
no case make mention by whom or under whose superintendence this duty, so important to 
success, was performed. The last mentioned order, private and confidential in its nature, suffi- 
ciently indicates that Captain Chrvstie was the officer sent in advance of further movements again 
to explore the surroundings of the fort, and so to select the foothold whereon his comrades might 
stand when collecting themselves for the final blow. But the blank in the story of that memor- 
able day is amply filled by the following order, given in Wayne's own handwriting, over his own 
signature, on the very next day after he receives Washington's consent for immediate action, 

and is probably the written order given by Wayne on that day : 

" Fort Mont'y, 15th July, 1779. 
Sir: You will march by the Doodletown route, and approach to as near the enemy's lines as convenient before 
night, so as not to be discovered. You will fix upon the proper place to post your sentries from the river towards 
the old mill near the causeway, so as to prevent any person from going into or coming out from the enemy but 
what you secure. You are to take and keep all the male inhabitants in the vicinity of the enemy's lines until 
further orders, particularly the person you had in charge the other day. You'll hear from me this evening. 

1 am. Sir, vour hum. servt., ANT- WAYNE. 

Capt. ChK'. 31 ! 

How well and how faithfully this most important duty was performed, history and tradition 
both inform us. Late in that afternoon every household in the vicinity of the fort was shut up 
and guarded within its own doors. Every dog whose bark might raise an echo of alarm in those 
secluded mountains was effectually quieted. No lip of any sort was found to utter a whisper of 
the concourse of heroes soon secretly to muster in those solitudes, and when, in the early shadows 
of the evening. Wayne, with his reconnoitring party of officers, arrived at the post of Captain 
Chrvstie, and his line of " sentries from the river to the old mill near the causeway," he found 
that welcome he looked for in a silence and stillness equal to that of midnight. If there is any- 
thing in words that go through one like the sound of a trumpet, these few soldierlike syllables of 
Wayne's last order have it. So they rang in the ears of the brave and faithful soldier who had 
the honor to receive them, and who was well fitted to take them in and hold them : " You'll hear 
from me this evening." That evening Captain Chrvstie heard from him. That night, when the 
spell of silence was broken, the British garrison heard from him. And now, after the lapse of a 
century of time, the echoes of that night still ring throughout a wide-spread, grateful and admir- 
ing nation. 

It is needless to continue the story of that night, or to tell how Captain Chrvstie and his 
party fell into line with Colonel Butler's regiment, and shared with their comrades the perils and 
glories of that brilliant assault, but when, on the 16th of July, 1S70. the mil of honor is called 
before this great nation in memory of those who, one hundred years ago, mustered in the dark- 
ness and sileni e ol Stony Point, his name should not be forgotten. 



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Southern Department, he participated in the Siege of Savannah in that year and 
in the defence of Charleston in 1780. In the latter he was assigned to the com- 
mand as Major of Light Infantry, and became a prisoner upon the surrender. 

In 1781, after his release, he returned to his position as Aide to General 
Lincoln, and was with him at the Surrender of Cornwallis, thus being present 
at the two principal capitulations of the war. When Lincoln was transferred to 
the post of Secretary of War, he acted as his assistant. 

He had also a share of naval experience in the expedition fitted out by 
Commodore Whipple, while he was on duty in Charleston in 1780, and later in 
the "Jason," when sailing for the Chesapeake. 

In r 7 S ^ , on the conclusion of the war, he received the commission of Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, by brevet. Few officers of his rank saw as much active service 
in notable events, often voluntarily and without fixed positions or compensa- 
tion. He married first Mary Rutherfurd, by whom he had one child (Mrs. 
Peter Augustus Jay). His second wife was Sarah Cornell, by whom he had 
three sons and four daughters. 

He served in both Houses of the State Legislature ; as a candidate of the 
Federal Party for the United States Senate, receiving a majority of the votes 
of the Upper House, but failing on joint ballot ; Major-General in the State 
Service, by which title in later life he was known ; ami was President of the 
Bank of New York for twenty-one years. In all his varied duties his course 
was marked with the same devotion as to the cause of his country. His name is 
also associated with the foundation of nearly all the early philanthropic societies 
ol New York ; one of the fust promoters of our free school system; for forty- 
one years one of the Regents of the University ; for thirty years Governor of 
the New York Hospital, twenty-three years of which he served as its President ; 
and one of the Vice-Presidents and founders of the American Bible Society. 

Profoundly convinced of the equality of man, he took a warm interest in 
the slavery question, and was bitterly hostile to every attempt to enlarge 
the area then open to human bondage. As early as 1789 he introduced a 
bill in the Assembly for its gradual abolition in this State. 

He Witt Clinton, in a memorial address, said : 

" Wherever a charitable or public spirited institution was about to be established, Clarkson's 
pr< si m e was considered essential. His sanction became a passport to public approbation." 

" His portrait," said Chancellor Kent, " presents an elevation of moral grandeur, above all 
Greek, above all Roman fame. It belongs to Christianity alone to form and to animate such a 
character." 

His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

M \TTHEW CLARKSON, his grandson, was admitted in 1S79, and is a 
member of the Standing Committee. 



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ALEXANDER CLINTON 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Bom at Deer Park, Orange County, in [765. He was drowned in crossing 
the Hudson at Bull's Ferry on the 15th of March, 1787. 

Was the eldest son ol General James Clinton. Appointed on the 29th of 
September, 1780, while a boy, an Ensign in the 1st Regiment oi Continental 
I nfantry. Ai the request of liis uncle, Gov > not < ieorge < llinton, he was trans- 
ferred and appointed, on the 29th of June, 1781, Lieutenant in the ?<\ Regiment 
of the Continental Corps of Artillery— CV>/eW Lamb's. By a regimental order, 
dated 28th of June, 1 7 Si, at West Point although scarcely sixteen years of age 
he was assigned to Captain Joseph Thomas' Company. ! I « ■ also served as 
Private Secretary to his uncle the Governor. Honorably discharged with his 
regiment, 3d of November, 1783. Lost atthi ageot twenty-two, he had already 
contributed his honorable record to those ot a patriotii and useful family. 
His name appears on the Half Pay Roll. 

hi; Will CLINTON,* Governor of New York, the distinguished stati 
man ami scholar, sui 1 1 1 ded, as a collateral, liis brother Uexandei in t8i ;. 

CHARLES ALEXANDER CLINTON, the eldest son ol Governor De 

Win < '1 1 ni on, and i Ik nephew oi Lieutenant Alexander Clinton, was ad mil in I in 
the succession in [829. lie dud _• 1 st of November, [86 



GEORGE CLINTON 

Brigadier-General, and Governo) <>/ New York. 

Born in Ulster County, N. V., 26th of July, 1739- Died al Washington, 
D. C, 20th of April, 1 Si 2, while in the discharge ol his official duties as Vice- 
President oi the United States, the last of many to which his life was devoted. 

His earliest service was as a Lieutenant of a privateer iii the expedition 

against Fori Frontenac, accompi :d by his brother J; is. He subsequentl) 

read law with William Smith, the Chief-Justice and historian, hut returned to 
his native county, where Admiral Georgi < linton oi the Lincoln family — 
1 1" n Governor of New York, undei the Crown, conferred upon him a clerkship. 



t'hc 1 I 1 bei 1 1 'I,, notici here which In . m and often i led i 



I jS rill SOCIETY OF I III CINCINNA II. 

He practiced law successfully, and, as a member of the Assembly, early opposed 
the arbitrary measures ol the British Government. He took Ins seal in Con 
gress [5th ol May, 1775, vigorously espoused and voted for independence; but 
the invasion of his State, calling him to her defence— being a Br, 1 General 

— he lost the opportunity of signing the Declaration. 

In 1776 he was a Deputy in the New York Provincial Congress, which gave 
to tlu' si. iii its earliest Constitution. Having been active in protecting his 
State, he was selected as a Bri General by Congress on the 25th of 

March, 1777. In the following month he was chosen the first G 
the State ol New Vork, and as such stoutly defended Forts Clinton and Mont- 
gomery in the Highlands, when, on the 6th of October, the} wire attacked by 
the forces of Sh Henry Clinton. The appreciation of his services to the 
State was evidenced by his continuous elections as its Executive from that time 
to 1705. 

He was principally instrumental in defeating the British plan for dividing 
the hard) New Englanders from the rest of the Union, by establishing a chain 
of military posts controlling the valleys of the Hudson and Lake Champlain, 
from New York to the St. Lawrence. 

In June. 17SS, he presided over the Constitutional Convention, but opposed 
that important instrument from an apprehension that it trammelled too much 
the prerogative ol his State. When, in (792, Washington was elected Presi- 
dent, Clinton received fifty electoral votes for Vice President. He was 
wards elevated to that dignity from 1804 to 1812. In the meanwhile he had 
again been selected as Gt»\ r-nor, from 1801 to 1804. In 1 Si i Ins casting vote, 
as President of the United States Senate, negatived the renewal of the charter 
of the U mted Stales Hank. 

He married Cornelia Tappan, of Ulster County. His career forms one ol 
the proudest pages in the history of his State and country. As soldier and 
statesman, he equally developed the best elements attributed to those of 1 
in her early purity. His virtues and valor were the ornament ami defence of 
his people. Wise in council, brave in action and pure in administration 

lbs tomb in the Congressional Burying Ground should be an object of 
interest to all, especially to New Yorkers visiting the Capitol. 

GEORGE WILLIAM CI IN ION. his only grandson in the male line, was 
admitted in (833, m\o[ dud without issue. 



THE SOCIETY OF I 111- CINCINNATI. i;<i 



JAMES CLINTON 

Brigadier-General. 

The following sketch furnished by Mr. Clinton. 

Born at New Windsor, Orange County. N. Y., on the 9th of August, 173''. 
and died there on the 22CI of December, 1812. 

He was the third son of Charles Clinton, a man of education and influence, 
who came from Longford, Ireland, where his family had found refuge from 
political troubles, and in 1729, settling in Ulster County, N. V., became the 
Lieutenant-Colonel of one of the battalions of Colonel Oliver de Lancey's Regi- 
ment. He was appointed by Admiral Sir Charles Hardy — then Governor of 
New York — an Ensign in (his father's) the 2d Ulster Militia. 

In 1756, during the French War, he distinguished himself at the capture of 
Fort Frontenac as a Captain under Colonel John Bradstreet, capturing a sloop- 
of-war on Lake Ontario. The command of four companies, levied for the 
protection of the western frontiers of the Counties of Ulster and Orange, a 
position then involving untiring vigilance and great responsibility, was given 
him. 

He married Maria De Witt on the 18th of February, 1765. 

On the 30th of June, 1775, he was appointed Colonel of the 3d New York 
Regiment, and followed General Montgomery to Canada. Promoted to be 
Brigadier-General on the 9th of August, 1776. 

He commanded, at Forts Clinton and Montgomery, in October, 1777, and 
defended them against three thousand British veterans under Sir Henry 
Clinton, and held the works until they were carried by storm and he severely 
wounded. 

In 1779 he joined General Sullivan's expedition to the Indian Territory by 
the way of the Mohawk, with sixteen hundred men. In the engagement at 
Newtown, N. Y. — now Elmira — the Indians were defeated with heavy loss, and 
took refuge under the British Fortress at Niagara. 

At Albany he was stationed in command for some time, and it is recorded 
there as an instance of his ability, that one of the Massachusetts Regiments 
refusing to march to the aid of Schuyler, he threatened to have the officers and 
ringleaders shot unless they instantly obeyed, which had the desired effect. 

His presence at Yorktown was a fitting conclusion of his valuable services. 

Subsequently he was appointed a Commissioner to adjust the boundary 
between New York and Pennsylvania, a member of the Legislature and the 
Convention which adopted the Constitution of this State. 



lSo I M I OCIETY OF THE CINCINN VTI. 

He ni.Miii 1 secondlj M.u\ Little, the widow of Alexander Gray, on the ist 
oi May, 1707. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ALEXANDER CLINTON, M.D., his eldest grandson, was admitted in 
iN|<> He was the only son of Charles Clinton, the second son of General 
James whose eldest son, Lieutenant Alexander, died unmarried. He was the 
Physician of the New York State Society, until his decease in 1878. 

ALEXANDER JAMES CLINTON, eldest son of Dr. Alexander, was 
admitted in 1S78, and holds the office of Treasurer of the New York State 
So* iety. 

JOHN COCHRAN 

i i try Hospitals. 

I lie following si f G H ane. 

Bom at Sadsbury, Penn., on the ist of September, 1730. Died at his 
countrj seat at Palatine, Montgomery County, \. \ . on the 6th of April, [807. 

His family clansmen and kin of the house of Dundonald, from which the 
Admiral of that name, once connected with South American warfare, derived 
his title, passed from Paisley, in Scotland, to the North of Ireland in 1570. 
Three of the descendants, seeking greater freedom in the New World, set ured 
a considerable patent from the sons of William Penn in 1743, and divided it 
into farms, which still retain the name of Cochranville. 

lie was educated at the grammar school of Dr. Francis Allison, and, in the 
profession which made his life most useful, by Dr. Thompson, 

At the outbreak of the French and Indian War he was qualified for the 
position of Surgeon's Mate in the Northern Army. In 1758 he marched with 
al John Bradstreet against Fort Frontenac. 

lie was the founder, in 1766, of the Medical Sot iet) ol New Jersey, and in 
November, 17".). 1 d Dr. Burnett as us President. 

The Revolution taking form, he offered his services in the Medical Depart- 
ment. Washington, in a letter to Congress in 1777, alluding to his services 
as a volunteer, and as having served in the French War, recommended his 
appointment. 

On the 7th of April, m that year Congress, considered and accepted a plan 
submitted by him and Dr. William Shippen, which was approved by Washing- 
ton, for hospitals on the English model. On the toth, again on Washington's 
recommendation, he was appointed Physician and Surgeon-General (A the Army 




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I III, SOCIETY OF I'lIK CINCINNATI. 1 X ] 

of the Middle Department. In this position he deeply deplored the defective 

equipment and inefficiency which characterized the new service, in which he 

found himself at times responsible without means for relief. In a letter to Dr. 

Jonathan Potts, the Purveyor General, at Morristown, 18th of March, 1780, he 

sa) S : 

" I received your favor by Dr. Bond, and am extremely sorry for the present situation of the 
Hospital Finances. 1 Nit -lores have all been expended for two weeks past, and not less than six 
hundred regimental sick ami lame, most of whom require some assistance, it being withheld, are 
languishing and must suffer. I flatter myself you have no blame in this matter, but curse on 
him or them, by whom tin-- evil is produced. The vengeance of an offended Diety must overtake 
the miscreants sooner or later. It grieves my soul to see the poor, worthy, brave fellows, pine 
away for want of a few comforts, which they have dearly earned. I shall wait on his excellency, 
the Commander-in-Chief, and represent our situation, but I am persuaded it can have but little 
effect, for what can he do ? He may refer the matter to Congress, they to the Medical Com- 
mittee, who will probably pow-wow over it awhile and no more be heap"' of it. The few stores 
sent on by Dr. Bond, in your absence, are not yet arrived. I suppose owing to the badness of the 
roads. If they come, they will give us some relief for a few weeks." 

This is one of the many manly protests of a witness of the effects of delay, 
often doubtless attributed to himself by the sufferers. They appear to have 
been wrung from his generous nature by the often recurring results of either 
the negligence, delay or want of means of those who carry on the sanitary 
department of warfare, by a bureau or executive, too remote for intelligent 
operations. In January, 1781, when Dr. Shippen resigned the position of 
Director-General, Congress immediately, without solicitation, conferred the 
post upon Dr. Cochran, which he acknowledged from New Windsor, Conn., on 
the 3d of February in a letter to the President of Congress : 

" I received your Excellence's favor of the iSth of January yesterday enclosing an Act of 
Congress, appointing me Director of the Medical Hospitals. I thank Congress for this additional 
mark of honor conferred on me, and you Sir, for the polite and obliging manner in which you are 
pleased to communicate the same. If my past conduct in the station of Physician and Surgeon- 
General to the Army, which I have filled for near four years, has been acceptable to that honorable 
body, I hope my future endeavors to perform the duties of my new office, will be no less so. As 
far as my abilities will enable me to execute the Trust, they shall be most faithfully exercised and 
whatever errors may fall to my lot, they will proceed from a want of judgment and not of 
intention." 

In this broader field Dr. Cochran did not remit vigilance in minor details, 
and his letters abound in suggestions, appeals and protests in seeking for 
necessary supplies and facilities. In one from New Windsor, in February, 17S1, 
to Abraham Clark (the Signer), then Chairman of the Medical Committee, he 
says : 

" Though we have few deaths, yel the p ■ fellows suffer for want of necessary supplies, 

which I hope will soon be afforded them, otherwise there will be little 01 casion lot Physicians and 
Sine, cms." 

To Purveyor Thomas Bond he writes on the following 35th of March : 

" I am sorry to inform you thai I found the Hospital— al Albany — entirely destitute of all 
kinds of stores, except a little vinegar, which was good lor nothing, and frequently without Bread 



182 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

or Beef for many days, so that the Doctor under these circumstances was obliged to permit such 
of the patients as could walk into town to beg provisions amongst tlic inhabitants." 

Again, on the 2d of April : 

" Neither myself nor any of the gentlemen who have served with inc. have received a shilling 
from the Public in twenty three months, which has, as you may reasonably suppose, reduced me 
to some difficulties." 

In another to Abraham Clark, on the 30th : 

" I have from all quarters the most melancholy complaints, of the sufferings of the sick in 
the Hospital^ for want of stores and necessaries, that you can conceive ; and unless some speedy 
remedy is applied the consequences must be very fatal. As soon as my strength will enable me, 
1 propose setting out for Philadelphia. On the 5th instant I was taken sick with a Pleurisy, 
which has confined me until yesterday, and has left me very weak." 

lie was going to plead at the door of Congress for relief from the distress 
which surrounded his duties, and these evidences of an eye-witness seem 
worthy here, as showing the sufferings out of which our nationality arose. 

While in camp in July, he begs Dr. Bond to send aid. suggesting : 

" Coul. 1 you not by advertizement be able to procure a quantity of old linen from the good 
ladies of your city? I was obliged after the last skirmish, when fifty men were wounded, to give 
every shirt I had in the world but two. to make lint. * " :: " * I dread the thought of an action, 
when we haw it not in our power to relieve the distress of the unfortunate." 

Dr. Cochran's correspondence shows many duties, outside of his special 
field, well performed. He appears to have anticipated emergencies, allayed 
jealousies, protected his subordinates from wrong, and to have aided them, 
when unqualified, even in the performance of their duties. lie tabulated 
returns for the information of the Commander-in-Chief, ami appears to have 
displayed at all times subordination of self, cheerfulness in adversity and 
courage amidst danger. 

When retired from such service, the same characteristics made him a useful 

ami honored citizen, and well fitted to enjoy and protect what he had suffered 

to win. Good men appreciated his services and sought his friendship. Of 

these, Lafayette, Wayne and l'aul Jones may lie recalled. Washington ga\e 

him his camp equipage, Lafayette sent him a gold watch, and " Mail Anthony" 

Wayne his sword. Lafayette says in a letter written from France in 1779 : 

" \s during my tit of illness the watch I hail then was of great use to you in feeling m) 
puis, I thought such an one might be convenient, which I have entrusted to the Chevalier de la 
Luzerne, and beg leave to present you with it. I did fancy that adorning it with my heroic 
friend's picture would make it acceptable. Be so kind, my dear Sir. as to present my best respei Is 
to your lady, and my best compliments to your brother Doctors and my brother officers of the 
Army. Tell them how sincerely I love them, how much I desire to join them again." 

In 1790, on the adoption of the new Constitution, Washington selected him 
—to use his own words—" a cheerful recollection of his past services," and 

••reposing special confidence in him" — as the Commissioner of Loans tor the 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 183 

State of New York, but a stroke of paralysis warned him to surrender this and 
other trusts. Retiring to his country home, he died, and with his wife, Ger- 
trude, the only sister of din-rat Schuyler, who survived him until March, 1813, 
lies buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N. Y. His name appears on the 
Half- Pay Roll as Director-General. 

JAMES COCHRAN, his eldest son, was admitted in 1.S17. He married 
Catharine Van Renssalaer, the youngest daughter of General Schuyler, and 
died without issue. 

JOHN COCHRANE, Brigadier-General, U. S. A., his eldest grandson 
(son of Walter Livingston Cochran, the only brother of the foregoing), was 
admitted in 1858. He was a member of Congress from 1856 to 1862, and 
Attorney-General of New York in 1865, Chairman of the Standing Committee 
and a delegate to the triennial meetings of this Society. 



ROBERT COCHRAN 

Lieutenant-Colonel 2d New York Regiment. 

The following sketch furnished by Major Asa Bird Gardiner. 

Died at Sandy Hill, N. Y., 3d of July, 1812. 

He was one of those pioneer settlers of the New Hampshire Grants (now 
Vermont), holding under the title of the Governor of that Colony, but claimed 
by New York. Although this controversy confused the cooperation of the 
Territory in the ensuing struggle for freedom, he was not one of those who 
were alienated by it from the common cause. As a Captain in the " Green 
Mountain Boys," associated with Colonel Ethan Allen and others prominent in 
the resistance to New York, he had been declared guilty of felony, and sent- 
enced to death by the Act of the Legislature of the 9th of March, 1774. He, 
with six others, had hurled back a counter charge at Bennington on the 26th of 
the ensuing April ; but they soon buried the recollection of the local contro 
versy, and stood side by side with their recent opponents in resisting a common 
oppressor. He was residing with his family opposite Gilliland's Creek, on Lake 
Champlain, when the war broke out, and as a Provisional Captain, under Ethan 
Allen, was with him at the capture of " Ticonderoga " ami "Crown Point." 

On the 5th of July, 1775, he was commissioned by the Provincial Congress 
of New York a Captain in Colonel Ethan Allen's " Green Mountain Hoys," con- 
sisting of seven companies. 



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in \ .'I I III CINCINNATI 



In December, i; i came Senior Caf>ta ■ in I Samuel Ellmore's 

K, nn, ni ol I ni .mi is m the Continental service, and en the 19th ol July, '77". 
was promote* vl 1 , anil stationed successive!} .11 Fori Dayton and 

l. mi s, huylei (formerly Stanwix), On the reorgani ation ol the New Vork 
I in,- i' 1 tin u.ii he was particular!} recommended for a commission, and was, 
on the 11st ol November, 1 '6, appointed \faJo ol the 3d Ri t, New 

Vork Continental Infanli \ I * lansevoort, 

He was with 1 Schuyler during the lUirgoyne campaign, and was 

sent to tlv \ ■ rmonl Council ol Safety .it Bennington, urging militia reinforce 
incuts. Was present .it the Battle ol Saratoga and al Burgoyne's surrender. 

On the iStli i>l May, 17 9, he appears, in the New Vork Calendei ol 
Historical Manuscripts, as al Mbany petitioning <■ Clinton as .1 free 

holdci and inhabitant ol the State, having a wife and six children with whom 

. , 1 on I ake Cliamplain on some ol his lands there, until the op< 
tht war to the northward rendered it necessary for him to leave his habitation 
.mi I retire with his family into the more iuterioi parts ol the country; that being 
convinced ol the jusl rights ol this countn in its contest with Great nni.ini. 
and ol tlu rt'i as expedicnc} ol opposing, b} force ol arms, their 

tyrannical usurpations, he was one ol the firsl in tliis State who steed forth and 
1 ,1 into tlu 1 nee ol his countn ; presumes it is not in the powei ol man 
to allege anything against his charactei as an officer, a gentleman 01 a soldier; 
and aftei reciting his services and rank as a Major, the resolution ol Congress 
granting lands according to rank, and that he is so entitled to foui hundred 
acres, asks for a grant of that area at Crown Point, pari of which has been 
ofore reserved In the < own ol Britain for the use ol a garrison there in 
time of war, under such conditions, restrii lions and limitations as his 1 vo 1 ic} 
ma} deem neecssan and expedient. 

lie served with Ins regiment in <>'... -..• Sullivan's expedition against the 
Si\ Nations, participating in the defeat ol -V' John Johnson ami Brant at 
New tow n. 

Pvonn led to be ' ol his re inenl '•'■•• nber, 

1 q On the 1 -t of January, St, on the incorporation of the Line, he was 
transferred a-- > to the id New Vork Regiment Van Cort- 

landt's. lie served at Vorktown, and was honorably discharged ,;'! ol Novem- 
ber, i;S,;. 

His remains rest at Fori Kdward, near those ol \.u-,- McCrea, whose tragic 
tate 1- .1 thrill incident. 

It is related in his career he once altest,-,! a woman's fidelity and his own 
nee >>t mind. when, in 177S. he was sent to Canada en secret service, Ins 
> ted. a tempting reward was offered for his head. While - 



MM IOCIETV 01 ["HE CINCINNATI, i 85 

sick and hungry, ealed in a brush heap, he heard threi men and a woman 

being hei husband discti sing and planning his capture. The men 

di parting in pursuil ol him, he threw himsell upon the meri j oi the woman, 

who agreed to sav< him. Before theii rel , leading him to a safe place of 

n fuge, '.In' ministered to his wants, until hi had n i overi d sufifii ientl) to escape 
lie died leaving only one daughter, Janet, His name appears on the I l.ili 
Pay Roll, 

CHRISTOPHER CODWISE 

Lieutenant \d Veiv York Regiment, 

Appointed Lieutenant 2d New York Regimenl Colonel Van Cortlandl on 
1 In list ol November, \ 770. 

Wajot fames Abeel, ol ( 'ohm I Lasher's Reg nt, wrote, I the camp al 

White Plains on the 27th of October, 1776, to the members ol the State Con 

vention, Mum sitting, the follow ing 

"I have taken ihi Libert] 1 mmend Mr, Christophci 1 ndwisc to ) • \ 

properl] qualified to beat 1 1 mini 1 1 ' ipl n the \i mj ol thi ' Itati hi bi ing 

resolute, prudent officei and has shown his willingness, before hi iva in tin ervice of thi 

to go ns a voluntcci on everj 1 pedil , and has alwa; behaved himsell w< 11 and inei his 

h: ■ been 1 fficer, has always discharged his dulj In his tat ion to tin satisfactii 1 his 

upi 1 1 

The Committee appointed him on the 2is1 "I November, 1776, Second 
Lieutenant in the Seventh Company ol the sd New York Regiment, tn June, 
1777.hr was appointed First Lieutenant "l the same company. He served 
until deranged by Acl ol Congress in fanuary, 1781, His name appears on the 
Half-Pa) Roll. 

WILLIAM COLBRATH 

Lieutenant and Quartermastet \d Vew York A' merit. 

Appointed on the e 1 si ol November, 177'', F.nsign in the 3d Regiment, New 
Null Continental Infantry, on recommendal 1 Col 7/1 I I voorl 

[n a certificati signed bj ( 'olonel Frederii k VVeissenfeli al Quebei , on tin 
1 5 1 1 1 ol Apnl. 1775, and approved b) General VVooster, then Commandei in 

Chiel ol the I ontinental forces before Quebec, hi is menl 'I with officers 

of his then Colonel Nicholson's Regimenl .1^.1 '■ eutenant. 

Transferred to the 2d Regiment, Continental Infantrj Colons Van Corl 
landt's on the 1st nt fanuary, 1781, and appointed Regimental Quartermaster, 



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Captain (by brevet) on the 30th of September, 1783. Honorably discharged 
with his regiment on the 3d of November, following. His name appears mi 
the Half- Pay Roll. 



MICHAEL CONNOLLY 

I. Untenant 2 ,/ New York Regiment. 

He was residing at, ami became an Associator in. Kingston, Ulster County, 
in May, 1775. 

(hi the ^ 1 st of November, 1770, he was appointed First Lieutenant of 
Captain Bevier's Company, 5th Regiment, New York Continental Regiment — 
tel I)u Bois. 

In July, 177S, he was on detached duty at New Windsor as Regimental 
Paymaster, but on the 1st of January, 1781, was transferred to the 2d Regi- 
ment, New York Continental Infantry — Van Cortlandt's. Under the Act of 
Congress, 30th of September, 17S3, he was breveted a Captain, and honorably 
discharged the service on the 3d of November following. 

In all official trusts it is claimed that he markedly possessed the confidence 
of the officers and soldiers with whom he served, and that his final returns, filed 
with the Secretary of State of New York, ami his certificates, on any question 
affecting the position or accounts of others, were considered conclusive. 

He is reported to have been frequently consulted by Governor George 
Clinton and the other Commissioners of the Land Office of the State, while 
military land warrants were being located, as to their validity. His name 
appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

JOHN CONWAY 

Lieutenant-Colonel \st New Jersey Regiment. 

He was appointed Captain of the First Battalion, First Establishment, on 
the -mm of November. 1775. and of the First Battalion. Second Establishment, 
on the 29th of November. 1776, and Major of the Fourth Battalion, Second 
Establishment, on the :9th of October. 1777. 

Appointed Major of the 3d Regiment, New Jersey Continental Infantry— 
Colonel Flias Dayton, on the 29th of October. 1777. Promoted to be Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the 1st Regiment. New Jersey Continental Infantry, on the 5th of 
July, 1779. 



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He was wounded at the battle of Germantown. Resigned the service on 
the 1st of February, 1781, after serving five years and three months. 

Subsequently he became the Sheriff of Middlesex County, N. J. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

CONWAY HILLYER ARNOLD, his great grandson, Lieutenant United 
States Navy, was admitted in his right by the New Jersey State Society on the 
4th of July, 1882. 



SAMUEL COOPER 

Lit utenant and Adjutant of the 3./ Regiment of Artillery ( Massachusetts). 

Horn in 1 757. 

He was one of the memorable "Tea Party," the original boycotters of 
America in 1773. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant of the 3d Regiment, Continental Corps of 
Artillery — Captain John Crane — 1st of February, 1777. Appointed Regimental 
Quartermaster 14th of May, 1778, and acting Regimental Adjutant 1 ith of June, 

1783- 

He was continued in the service on the reduction of his regiment on the 
1 2th of June, 1783, and honorably discharged with his company on the 1st of 
January, 1784. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts State Society, but was, 
upon his removal to New York City, on the 3d of July, 1804, transferred to the 
New York State Society. He held the office of Inspector of Pot and Pearl 
Ashes, from 1808 to 1830, until he removed to Georgetown, 1). ('., where he 
died at an advanced age. His names appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



ANDREW CRAIGIE 

Apothecary-General. 

Horn at boston 7th of June, 1743. He died on the igth of September, 
1819, at Cambridge, Mass. 

Appointed Apothecary-General in the Continental Service on the 1st of Jan- 
uary, 1777, on General Washington's recommendation, under the resolution of 
Congress reorganizing the Medical Department, adopted 30th of September, 
1780. 



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After faithful service, mosl ol the time in Philadelphia, he was honorabl) 
discharged on the ;<i of November, 1783 His residence was the Vassel Place 
.it Cambridge, Mass., well known both .is Washington's Headquarters and the 
home "i 1 he Poel Longfellow, for which lie paid .{,.;. 7 y . a large sum, especially 
for .1 vetei an al 1 hat da} . 

A bridge from Boston to Lechmere Point, of which he was the projector, 
recalls his name, He appears upon the Hall Pa) Roll, 



JOHN DUTTON CRIMSHEIR 

eutenant and Paymastet \ , .. York 1 Hllery. 

Appointed Paymaster 2d Regiment, Continental Corps ol Artillery — Colonel 
I .null's on the 1st i>t J uly, 1777. 

Honorabl) discharged, after three years' service, on the 14th ol September, 
1779, b) act ol Congress, 29th ol July, 1770. 1 lis name appears on the Half- 
Pay Roll. 



E B E N E Z E R C R S B Y 

Surgto His Excell v's ( 

the following sketch furnished b) Mi I mi II Crosby, 

Born 30th '•! September, 175,;. Died 16th of fuly, 1788, 

He was the son ni /. ■..■ foseph Crosby, ol Braintree now Quincy), Mass., 
ins birth place Graduated at Harvard College in 170; rhe degree of \.M. 
was conferred upon him both by Harvard and Vale in 17s.-. 

He left his native town at an <\\\\\ age, joined the army before Boston as a 
Surgeon, and si Mill Ins countr) as such faithfull) for seven years. 

He graduated from the Medical Department of the (Jniversit) of Pennsyl- 
vania in the Class ol 1780, taking the degree ol Bachelor ol Medicine, and 
when located in New Yovk City, aftei the war, was elected, in 1785, Professoi 
"i Obsterics in Columbia College, and became, in 1787, b) the action ol the 
l 1 gislat ure, one ol its ti usti es 

B) his marriage with Catharine Bedlow, daughter of William Bed low the 
ownei ol Bedlow's Island in New Vork Harboi and niece of Ci 1 Henry 
Rutgers, he became connected with several of the leading families ol New 

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I mi SOI IE i '. "I I hi CINI 

York. A large portion of th< Rutgei estate pa d to on,William B< 

Crosby, n I found often record) d 

In the Fall of 1787, Dr. Crosby's health failing, he sought relief in a 

\ mi ent's and thi 1 limate ol thi 1 ropics. 
He died at th( residenci oi Ins father in law in Wall Street in the next 1 1 
His practice was approved by the pi ol hi period and! 

lectures were marked for their ability. Hi nun' appeal on thi Half Pa} 

Roll. 

WILLIAM BEDLOW ' ROSBY, ins second son, was admitted in 1810— 
th( eldest on, fohn Player Crosby, dying without issue. 

WILLIAM HENRY CROSBY, Ins grandson, son of the last, was admitti 'l 
in !■ .'--. Hi va elected Treasurer in 1881 a 1 nembei ol the Standing 

< ommittee and Delegate to the triennia 



HENRY CUNNINGHAM 

Lit hi, a ant Ne\ It tillery. 

He enlisted, June, 1776, in Captain n Bauman's Companj of Colonel 

Knox's Regiment of Continental Artillery. Transferred with his company, 1st 
of January, 1777, to the 2d Reg ontinental Corps of Artillery Colonel 

Lamb's. Appointed / and honorably discharged as such by the 

expiration of his enlistment in fune, 1779. Appointed Second Lieutenant of his 
late regiment 12th of September, 177';, ami Regimental Quartertnast 
July, 1780. Promoted to bi Fit ' Lieutenant ol ' 8th ol April, 

but resigned a Rt imenial Quartermastet <■ I ol fanuary, /, , 

Honorabl) discharged with a portion of his regiment 1 I of January, 1, 
His nami appi u on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JAMES DAVIDSON 

Con; 1 , . , 1 1 II '1 1,1 1. 

The following communication to the Standing Committee of thi: 
dated New York, 26th of June, 1810, gives the best material attainable : 

"In . sundry <>f my friends ' 

■ ft that I should offer myself a candidate as an Honorary Membi 



IQO THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

doubting, but on proper application I should be admitted, for altho' I was not in the department 
jhting, yet as a Staff ( Ifficer, I had to the best of my abilities done my duty. 

However, time past along and owing to a combination of circumstances the application 

was not made, but yet never entirely lost sight of by me. 1 therefore at this late date offer a 
statement of a few facts which may have some weight with the honorable Members of an Honor- 
able Board. 

" 1 joined the General Hospital Department under the direction ot VI rgan at New- 

York in 177!'. as 1 Stores, providing not only for the said Gen' Hospital but for 

upwards of 20 Regimental Hospitals, until our evacuation of that City, and owing to a consider- 
able quantit; s 5 on hand, b( I 1 lartment I thought it my duty to continue 
by them to the last moment, endeavoring to transport them to Faulus Hook, which I did having 
sundry boats under my direction, in which from daylight to 3 o'clock 1' M on Sunday, a con- 
siderable quantity was saved, at which time the Enemy had advanced so near to the City, it was 
thought advisable so near were we to being taken that General Knox and Dr. 
Kustis's retreat was cut off on the Island, and who were saved (in the la- im imprison- 
ment, the British flag being displayed on our Battery before we had half crossed the River. 

'■ 1 was afterward stationed for a time at Newark, Hackensack and Bethlehem, and finally 

was ordered on with that part of the li. H. fixed at Danbury in Connecticut at which place, the 

a part of the enemy under the command of Gen. Agnew, left us but a narrow 

ape, as on a former occasion I thought it my duty to transport as many of th< 

- 1 mid to a pi.,. . However after an absence of part of a day and night, thev in 

their turn made as precipitate a retreat. 

" I continued in the Army till the year 17S0 leaving the Department (1 have the vanity to 
think. "i in ttu best possible regulation. I have the Honor, Gentlemen, t< 

" Your very humble Servant, 

'■J AS DAVIDSON 

Mis application fur membership was presented to the meeting; of the Stand- 
ing Committee on the 26th of June, 1805, but was not acted upon until the 4th 
of July, 1S1 1, when " in conformity to the report of the Committee of Enquiry, 
James Davidson was admitted a member, ami took his scat accord- 
ingly." His name appears on the Half- Pay Roll as Commissary of New York. 



HENRY DEMLER 

Lieutenant AY.v York Artillery. 

He served as an Assistant to the Quartermaster-General — Colonel Timothy 
Pickering — from 1st oi October, 1780, until appointed Lieutenant, 2d 

Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — tin the 21st oi 
December, 1781. 

Was then assigned to duty as Assistant Quartermaster In the main army, 
and after the discharge ^<l most of the Continental troops, at West Point, on 
the 1st of January, 1784, was ordered to Philadelphia to settle his own accounts 
and assist in settling those in the Quartermaster's Department. He was finally 
honorably discharged 1st ^i June. 17S4. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll with rank of Lieutenant. 



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DANIEL DENISTON 

Lieutenant id New Yak Regiment. 

Died 3d of February, 1824. 

Appointed Ensign 4th Regiment, New York Continental Infantry — Colonel 
Henry B. Livingston's — 9th of November, 1777. Transferred to the 2d Regi- 
ment, New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Cortlandt's — on the reduc- 
tion of the army, 1st of January, 1781. Honorably discharged the service with 
his regiment, 3d of November, 1783, with the rank of Lieutenant. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

GEORGE I. DENNISTON 

Lieutenant $d New York Regiment. 

Died June, 1812. 

He was recommended by General James Clinton on 6th of December, 1776, 
as an Ensign, and was appointed in the Sixth Company of the 3d Regiment, 
New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Gansevoort — with rank dating from 
the 21st of November, 1776. 

Promoted, in 1780, to be a Lieutenant in Ins regiment, until becoming super- 
numerary by juniority, 1st of January, 1781, on the incorporation and reduction 
of the New York Line, he was honorably retired on that date. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 
• 

PIERRE REGNIER DE ROUSSY 

Lieutenant-Colonel zd New York Regiment. 

He served in the armies of Europe, when, coming to this country, he joined 
in 1776 the Continental Army in Canada. His commission as Sub- Inspector, 
with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, was ((inferred on the 21st oi November, 1776. 

On the 17th of March, 1777, a letter from General Washington, dated 20th 
"i February, was read to the Committee of Arrangements in favor of Lieutenant- 
Colonel Regnier — by which name he often appears and on the 26th they 
appointed him Lieutenant-Colonel in the New York Continental Infantry, with 
rank dating from the 12th of the Januarj preceding. 

In 177X In- was detailed to duty as an Inspector under the Inspector-Gen 
Baron Steuben, and -in January. 177.,, was transferred to the 2d Regiment, 



19- THE SOCIETY OF THt CINCINNATI. 

New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Cortlandt — but continued on 
detached duty. 

On the ^ ist of March. 1780, he was honorably discharged the service at his 
own request. His name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



SIMEON D E WITT 

g rapher to the Continental Army, 

The e sketch furnished by Mr. De Witt. 

in Ulster County. N. Y., on Christmas. 1756. Died on the 3d of 
December. 1834, at Ithaca. N. Y. 

His father, Dr. Andrew De Witt, belonged to that branch of the family 
which settled in Ulster County during Governor Stuyvesant's administration. 
and is said to have been connected with Captain Jan de Witt, who. while in the 
service of Holland, explored the coasts of New York and New England, and 
also with the settler of the same name who soon afterward erected a mill on 
Manhattan Island. 

He, with fourteen others of his name, signed the Article,- I Association at 
Rochester, Ulster County. 6th of July. 1775. his father being chairman. While 
at Queen's College. Xew Brunswick, he enrolled in a company composed of its 
students, and when it was broken up by the capture, he went to reside with his 
uncle. General James Clinton. He joined the line of the Continental Army as 
a volunteer, and was present at the surrender oi Burgoyne. 

Washington selected him as A rapher of the army from 177S 

to 1780, when he was appointed by Congress, 4th of December. 17S0. its 
He continued in that capacity and - iphical 

Engineers — in the place of Colonel Erskin. who resigned and returned to Europe 
— until the s f the war. He was present at Yorktown. giving effective 
service both there and on the march. His military surveys and maps were of 
great assistance to Washington. 

Honorably discharged the service on the 3d of November, 1783. The next 
year he was appointed Surveyor-General of New York, and served as such 
until his d< - He surveyed public lands in that State — a work of great 
labor and importance — and compiled them in 1804 in his valuable State map. 
It is claimed that he did not avail himself of his knowledge of these lands by 
the purchase of an acre when they were sold. He also superintended the 
survey of the Erie Canal. Was one of the Commissioners to settle the position 
of the State line between Xew York and Pennsvlvania. He was Resent of the 



I III JOl II n OF THE CINCINNATI. 193 

University from 1798, Vice-Chancellor from 1817 ami Chancellor from 1829. 
The "Elements of Perspective," published in Albany in 1813, was one of his 
many useful and ingenious essays. 

He was accepted to be what Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, his eulogist, described 
him, "A patriot, a soldier ami a Christian." 

He married a sister of Colonel Richard Varick. His name appears on the 
Half-Pay Roll as Geographer. 

RICHARD VARICK DE WITT, his eldest son, was admitted in 1836. 
He died 7th of February, 1868. 

RICHARD VARICK DE WITT, his grandson and eldest sun of the last, 
was admitted on the 4th of July, 1868, and is a member of the Standing Com- 
mittee. 



SAMUEL DODGE^ 

Ensign 2d A' no York Regiment. 

Appointed an Ensign in Colonel Weissenfels' 4th Regiment, New York Con- 
tinental Infantry, in 1779. Transferred on the 1st of January, 1781, to Colonel 
Van Cortlandt's 2d New York Regiment, and was with Lieutenant Samuel 
Dodge in the Fourth Company. 

Honorably discharged on the 3d of November, 1783. His name appears 
on the Half-Pay Roll. 



SAMUEL DODGE 

Lieutenant 2d New York Regiment. 

Died 27th of October, 1795. 

He was appointed Second Lieutenant 2d Regiment, New York Continental 
Infantry — Colonel James Clinton's — 27th of February, 1776, and served through 
the year. On the reorganization of the New York Continental Line for the 
war he was, on the 21st of November, 1776, assigned to the 5th Regiment, 
New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Du Bois'. On the 1st of October, 

* He and liis namesake, Lieutenant Samuel 1 lodge, were Associators f<jr Independence, 

signing at Marbletown, Ulster County, N. V., on the 29th of May. 1775, and the other in 
Armenia Precinct, Dutchess County, N. \ . on the 8th of June of the same year. 



194 THE SOCIETY OP THE CINCINNATI. 

1777, he was appointed First Lieutenant, and five days after was taken prisoner 
on the assault on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and was not exchanged until 
the 25th of October, 17S0. 

On the 1st of January, 1 7 S 1 , he was transferred to the 2d Regiment. New 
York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Cortlandt — with which he served until 
the Regiment went on waiting orders, 8th June, 1783. Captain, by brevet, on 
the 30th of September, 1783, when he was honorably discharged the service on 
the 3d of November following. 

From the time of his transfer to the 2d Regiment to the close of the war, 
he commanded its fourth company in the absence of Captain Benjamin Walker, 
who was serving on detached duty as an Aid to Baron Steuben and General 
Washington, successively. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

HENRY S. DODGE {Colonel), his only son, was admitted in 1806, and 
elected Secretary in iS 13. He was a Colonel in the War of 1812,' married Jane 
Yariek, and died in 1S26. 

JOHN VARICK DODGE {Rev.), his grandson and son of the last, was 
elected to membership in 1856. 

JOHN DOUGHTY 

Captain New York Artillery. 

Born in New York, 1754. Died, unmarried, on the 16th of September, r826. 

He was the son of Thomas Doughty — a merchant of New York City— of 
Scottish descent, and Gertrude Le Roux. Graduated at Columbia College in 
1770. 

Appointed Captain-Lieutenant of the Eastern Artillery Company of New 
Jersey — Captain Daniel Ned's — on the Continental Establishment, 9th of May, 
1776. 

Promoted to be Captain, by order of General Washington, dated at Morris- 
town on the 1st of January, 1777, in the 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of 
Artillery Colonel Lamb's — and assigned 1st of March, 1777, to command the 
New York State Company of Artillery in that regiment, late Captain Alexander 
Hamilton's. 

Promoted, with rank of Colonel, Aide-de-Camp to General Schuyler. He 
commanded his company continuously throughout the war, and was retained 
with it after the declaration of peace. After many vicissitudes of incorpora- 
tion, it is still in the service of the United States, being now Battery F, 4th 
Regiment, United States Artillery. 



I HE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 195 

An extract from a report made by him to Colonel Lamb of the achievement 
of a brother officer at the time he was temporarily commanding his regiment, 
and now in the Historical Society's Collection, displays a generous spirit in 
appreciating the merit of the service of another : 

" We have no news at present, and have remained in peace and quietness, except a small 
alarm we had a few days ago, which I dare say you have heard of before this ; but lest you should 
not, as it is a credit to our arms, I will trespass upon your patience in informing you of it. On 
the 19th instant the whole of the enemy's horse, supposed to be about two hundred, after a 
circuitous march on the preceding night, attempted to surprize at day break, a party of our horse 
under the command of Captain Lee, which forms our most advanced post, but unhappily for 
these bravadoes, this truly good officer observing their intentions, his retreat being dangerous, 
betook himself with the small party then with him, consisting of a Lieutenant, Sergeant, 
Corporal, and six men, to a large store housi . and there by his superior address and bravery 
withstood the repeated attacks of so superior a number ; and after supporting the conflict for 
some time, made these gentry relinquish their plan, and retreat with disgrace and confusion, 
leaving six dead on the held. Captain Lee's loss was trifling, none but his Lieutenant being 
wounded. I assure you nothing can reflect more honor on the character of a soldier than Captain 
Lee's behaviour on this occasion, and when added to his former services entitle him to the esteem 
of every other soldier, while at the same time, it teaches us young soldiers that it is not numbers 
that ensure 11s success, and that a few good determined fellow-s will execute what a thousand 
dastardly wretches would tremble at attempting. 

" My best wishes for your health and happiness, that they may always attend you. I beg 
you will make my best respects to Colonel Oswald. 

" And believe me with the greatest respect 

" Park of Artillery 27th January 1778. " Your most Obedt. Servt. 

"Colonel John Lamb. 'JOHN DOUGHTY." 

After the war he was appointed Major, by brevet, on the 30th of Septem- 
ber, 1783, and was retained in the United States service with his company, 
commanding the garrison at West Point from the 20th of June, 1784, to the 
20th of July, 1785, with the rank of Major, by special resolution of Congress, 
nth of November, 1784. 

Promoted on the 20th of October, 1786, to be Major of the 1st United 
States Infantry, New York Quota, to rank from 7th of August, 1786. Tr, in- 
ferred on the same day, with rank of Major, in the United States Artillery Bat- 
talion, and credited on the New Jersey's Quota. 

Appointed Colonel of Militia of the Northwest Territory, 19th September, 
1790. Promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel, 2d United States Infantry, 4th of 
March, 1791, as a reward for his long and faithful services. This appointment 
he declined, resigning after nearly fifteen years continuous service. 

At President Washington's request, he again served on Special Inspection 
duty on the Northern Frontier from the 17th of September to the 26th of 
October, 1791. 

Appointed Brigadier-General of the 2d Division of the New Jersey Militia 
on the 5th of June, 1793. 



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Appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engi- 
neers on the 1st of June, 1798. On the 26th of May, 1800, he resigned and 
was honorably discharged. 

He had taken part at Trenton, Assumpsink, Princeton ; led his company at 
Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Springfield and Yorktown. 

In 1785 he commenced the erection of the first fort built in Ohio, which he 
d " Foit Harmer." after his old commander; he also located and built 
•• Fort Washington," which was subsequently changed by Governor St. Clair to 
•' Cincinnati." 

On the 4th of July, 1793, he associated, upon his removal to Morristown, 
with the New Jersey State Society of the Cincinnati, and represented that 
district in the New Jersey Legislature ; was the Judge of Morris County, and 
President of the Academy. He was also prominent in the reception of La 
Fayette at that place in 1825. 

His homestead on the Basking Ridge road, in which he died, his grave and 
that of his father in the neighboring cemetery, recall to many his services as 
well as his soldierly and genial presence. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 

JOHN DOUGHTY OGDEN, of New York, his godson, whose grand- 
mother was a sister of Captain Doughty's mother, has submitted the following : 

" On the conclusion of peace lie was ordered to our western territory to establish forts or 
blockhouses on the Ohio River and elsewhere, and to select sites for our future cities. It is 
melanchol) to find that in these early days of the Republic there existed corrupt and designing 
men who dared to insult a public officer by offering money and other inducements to select their 
lands for these Mies. the integrity and sagacit) of Major Doughty has been fully proved by 
subsequent events, and particularly by the location of the City of Cincinnati, where he established 
a fort and a garrison. Many years ago I met in Virginia an enthusiastic citizen of that city, who 
assured me that the name of John Doughty was still remembered and venerated in that great 
capital. 

" In the course of this western expedition. Major Doughty had occasion to survey the 
Tennessee River, and while in a barge manned by sixteen United States soldiers, he was 
surrounded and attacked by a large force of Indians in canoes. Seated in the stern of his boat 
: \i]> a constant fire against the enemy, the muskets or rifles being reloaded and handed to 
him by his men. When eleven out of the sixteen soldiers had been killed or disabled, matters 
began to look serious and the Major thought the only thing to be done was to put an end to the 
Indian Chief. Standing up. he 'took an aim,' to use his own words, 'as cool and deliberate 
as if he had been shooting a robin.' the shot happily was successful, the Chieftan fell and the 
Indians lie. i. With his diminished crew it was impossible to make any headway against the 
current of the rivers, and he floated down the Tennessee and Mississippi until he reached the 
Spanish post in Louisiana. 

" He threw himself upon the hospitality of the commandant of the garrison, by whom he 
was kindly entertained and furnished with an escort to his own country. 

" I lis protracted absence had caused the greatest anxiety to his relatives and friends, as well 
as the Government. A letter addressed to him by General Knox, Secretary of War, congratulating 
him on his safe and unexpected return, attests the high estimation in which he was held by that 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 197 

Department. A short time after, he was appointed by General Washington, Colonel of a new 
regiment of Infantry to consist of three Battalions, ' in consideration,' as General Knox writes, 
1 of his long and valuable services.' " * 



HENRY DU BOIS 

Captain td New York Regiment. 

Born 26th July, 1755. Died on the 25th of May, 1794. 

He was the youngest son of Elias Du Boisf and Susannah Vandenburgh, of 
Ulster County, and married Nellie Ter Bush on the 24th of June, 17S0. 

Appointed, 14th of December, 1776, Adjutant of the 5th Regiment, New- 
York Continental Infantry — Colour/ Lewis Du Hois' — with rank of Lieutenant 
from 21st of November, 1776. 

On the 1st of September, 1778, he was promoted to be Captain- Lieu tenant 
in the same. Transferred, 1st of January, 17S1, to the 2d Regiment, New 
York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Cortlandt — and soon after promoted 
to Captain in the same. 

Was honorably discharged, at his own request, 4th of November, 1782. 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



* This position he did not long hold, preferring, when peace was attained, like Cincinnatus, to retire to his own 
country home. 

Tin- remaining portion of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits, in the cultivation of literature, and in the 
exercise of a generous hospitality. His younger brother Bartholomew had many years before been lost at sea. 
Two other brothers were officers in the British Army. They never met upon the field, but after the peace he 
performed many kind offices for the unfortunate Loyalists. They embarked for Nova Scotia, but perished by ship- 
wreck at Halifax. A maiden sister survived him six years, when his family became extinct. 

The property of General Doughty consisted of about four hundred acres of land lying on the east side of the 
Basking Ridge road, beginning at Morristown and extending nearly a mile to the southwest. He left by will a 
house and land to each of his three slaves, whom he had previously manumitted. Many years before his death he 
gave to the town an avenue or street on the eastern boundary of his estate, extending from Basking Ridge road to 
and beyond the top of the hill, now known as McCutluugh Avenue. 

f Governor Clinton writes as follows of the men of this family : 

" Peekskill, 19th November, 1876. — James Du Bois, son of Matthew Du Bois of New Windsor was named as 
a Second Lieutenant in Du Bois' Regiment. He had a brother another Lewis Du Bois a Captain in the service 
last year who behaved well and is since dead. I believe it would answer to appoint him. The men who were with 
his brother would incline to enlist with him. Many other young fellows in the country may be found who will 
answer and incline to serve, but I don't at present recollect their names." 

The officer referred to as dead was in Colonel James Clinton's Regiment. James Du Bois received the com- 
mission applied for as Second Lieutenant in Colonel Gansevoort"s Regiment. David Du Bo became First 
Captain in Colonel Du Bois' Regiment, and another, Major Lewis 1 tu Bois, appears in service in 177, all from 
Ulster County. 



igS THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

EDWARD DUNSCOMB 

Captain 4/// New York Regiment. 

Born in New York City, 23d of May, 1754. Died 13th of November, 1814. 

He was the son of Daniel Dunscomb, a member of the Provincial Congress 
of New York, and graduated at Kings College in 1774. Residing in New 
York City at the beginning of the Revolution, he became a member of an 
independent uniform militia company, known as the " Fusileers." 

(in the 29th of January, 1775,11c volunteered his services with his com- 
pany, which, with other independent uniformed militia organizations, was 
forme 1 into a regiment, known as the ist Battalion of the Independent Com- 
panies, under tlu- command of Colonel John Lasher. Appointed Lieutenant, in 
February, 1776, when his regiment was mustered into the Continental Service. 

His regiment was first stationed at Bayard's II ill, a commanding site in the 
City of New York, west of the Bowery, where Grand and Mulberry Streets 
intersect, and where they began the erection of a redoubt on the 1st of March, 
1776, ami continued in its occupation until relieved on the 16th of May follow- 
ing, with thanks for their masterly execution of that wank by the Commander- 
in-Chief. 

On the 22d of August of that year the regiment 1 rossed the East River to 
Brooklyn Heights, and on the evening of the 2 tit h. Lieutenant Dunscomb was 
one of a party of live officers, scut by Majo) 1 Sullivan, to patrol the 

Jamaica Pass, which duty was performed so incautiously in. the face of an 
enemy, that all were taken prisoners b\ the advance of Sir Henry Clinton's 
flanking column. Having been taken before Sir Henry Clinton, Lieutenant 
Dunscomb was so closely interrogated as to cause him to indignantly resent 
the effort " as offt nsive to an officer." He was < onfined in a prison ship, where 
he fell siik, and was paroled to Flatbush, 1,. I., where many American officers 
were confined, ami remained for twenty-two months. 

Meanwhile, on the 21st of November, 17711, on the petition of his brother 
officers, then in carnp at White Plains, who had not forgotten him, he was 
appointed a First Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment of the New York Continental 
Infantry — Colonel H. B. Livingston. 

Promoted to Captain Lieutenant, 23d of April, 1778, and to Captain in 1780, 
and on the reduction, by concentration, of the New York Line, 1st ot January, 
1 7 S 1 . he was rendered Supernumerary by juniority, and honorably retired. 

After the adoption of the United States Constitution, he became Clerk of 
ilu I nited States District Court, and an Examiner in Chancery. He was also 
a Vestryman of Trinity Church,, New York, a Trustee of Columbia College 




Lieut. JAMES FAIRL1E 






THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 199 

from 1795 to 1.X14, and in 1810 he was elected Sheriff of New York City. His 
name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

DANIEL E. DUNSCOMB, his eldest son, was admitted in 1X15, elected 
Secretary of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati in 1816, and died 
on the 3d of December, 1X50. 

JOHN ELLIOTT 

Surgeoti's Mate ist New York Regiment. 

He was recommended by Surgeon Hunloke Woodruff on the 20th of April, 
1777, in a communication dated at Fort Constitution, as qualified to act as 
Surgeon's Mate to the 3d Regiment, New York Continental Infantry, which 
was endorsed by its Lieutenant-Colonel, Marinus Willett, in a letter to the Com- 
mittee of Arrangements. He was so appointed, and on the 1st of January, 
1781, transferred to the 1st Regiment, New York Continental Infantry — Colonel 
Van Schaick. 

Honorably discharged the service on the 3d of November, 1783. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ANDREW ENGLIS 

Captain-Lieutenant ist Massachusetts Regiment. 

Appointed a Lieutenant in the 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, on the 1st of January, 1777. Promoted to be Captain- Lieutenant in 
1780, and transferred to the 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Continental Infantry 
— Colonel Joseph Vose's — on the ist of January, 1781. 

Honorably retired ist of January, 1783. His name appears on the Half- 
Pay Roll. 



JAMES FAIRLIE 



Lieutenant 2J JVezu York Regiment an,/ Aide-de-Camp. 

The following sketch furnished by Mr Rob rl Cylci 

Born in New York City in 1757. Died 10th of October, 1830. 

His father, James Fairlie, was a Havana merchant captain anil the son of 
a Scotch midshipman who settled in America early in the last century. His 
mother, Phoebe Mitchell, was a Quaker lady of Long Island. 



200 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

In 1776, at nineteen, he was commissioned an Ensign in Colonel McDougall's 

Regiment, and on that officer's recommendation, on the reorganization of the 
army, was retained as a Second Lieutenant in Colonel Van Cortlandt's, serving 
with it at Saratoga. Baron Steuben, in 1770, selected him as one of his Aides, 
and he was with him at Monmouth on the 28th of June, afterward accompany- 
ing him to Virginia.* 

The following is from Saffell's Records of the Revolutionary War : 

"Chesterfield Couri House May 3— 17S1. 

" Sik : You will take under your charge the wagons. Containing four hundred, Stand of 
Arms. Complete with bayonets &c., two hundred leather cartridges, two hundred tin canisters, 
and two thousand flints, and you will proceed immediately to Suffolk. Immediately on your 
arrival, you will acquaint Muhlenburgh of it. You will not be any means deliver am of 

the above articles without General Muhlenburgh's particular order. You will set out from this 
place this evening, or tomorrow morning verv early, so that you may arrive at Suffolk by the 
8th instant. 

" By order of I.' • Steuben 

"Wm. Porter, C. M. St "JAMES FAIRLIE, Aide de Camp." 

When the war ended he was relieved from the attendant distress which 
followed many officers without means of maintenance. 

The kind-hearted Karon offered it. in opening a home to him and employ- 
ing his pen in his palace of logs, styled " The Louvre." erected on his granted 
lands in Western New York. There, with Walker, North and other visiting- 
veterans, he participated in that hospitable " Bachelor's Hall " until new duties 
successively sought him. 

He was appointed tin C Agent for the State of New York, ami a 

member of its Legislature in 179S and 1S0S ; a Presidential Elector in 1804 
and 1S16 ; an Alderman of New York City, and one of the Delegates to the 
memorable State Constitutional Convention oi 1S21, and served for many years 
as Clerk of the Supreme Court of th - Si Jefferson conferred upon him 

the honorary position of Commissioner in Bankruptcy, and Madison offered 
him the position of Adjutant-General in the War oi 1S12. 

When he died, at 41 Cortlandt Street. New York City, his loss was con- 
sidered a public one, and his funeral was attended by the New York Cincinnati 
Society, he having acted as its Secretary in [7S4. 

Irving records how Washington fell back in a boat on the Hudson when 
enjoying one of his pleasantries. 

1 Pulaski, speaking of him with other-, in a letter to Franklin in 1 7 7 S. 

says : 

" But there is a younger class, who are principally on '.In- staff, of an equal cast of mind, and 
of superior education, having; generally just left their institutions of learning, or the early course 

* The BaroiTs manuscript correspondence in the Collections of the New York Historical Society shows how 
:; 1781, little affected by the war, until invaded by Arnold with twelve hundred men. 



I III SOCIETY Hi THE CINCINN \ I I. 201 

of professional life, to join the army. There are some elegant young men amongst these. 
Major Fairlie, I would mention as one of them. He is quite young — he was then twenty-one — 
but for sagacity, wit, and knowledge of his profession, he Ins no superior. Playful and satirical 
or instructive, as In varies from one subject to another. I have taken much delight in his 
society, and think he has given me more instruction in pronouncing the English language, than 
any other officer I have met with. This is probably owing to my enjoying his Society so much." 

Baron Steuben, when he divided his estate in ( meida amongst his Aides, 
discovered that Fairlie had prematurely exchanged his share with North for a 
set of Sevres, which had attracted his fancy, the stormy veteran thereupon 
withdrew his affection and cut him off. 

By his marriage with Maria, daughter of Chief '- Justice Yates, he had two 
sons, who tlied unmarried. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

JOHN TYLER COOPER, his great grandson, and son of Thomas Cooper, 
the tragedian, was admitted on the -ph of July, 1879, in his rijjht. 



EPHRAIM FENNO 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of 
Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — on the 1st of January, 1777. 

Promoted to be First Lieutenant of the same on the 1.5th of September. 
1778, and Captain-Lieutenant on the 20th of September, 1779. 

Honorably discharged, with a portion of his regiment, 1st of January, 1784, 
having served throughout the war. 

He died unmarried. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll as Lieutenant 
and Quartermaster of Massachusetts. 



NICHOLAS FISH 

Majoi and Brigade Inspector 2d New York Regiment. 

Horn in New York City on the 28th of August, 1758. Hied there on the 
20th of J tine, [833. 

At the age ol sixteen he entered the College of New Jersey, but soon left it 
to study law in the office of John Morin Si "it. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in the Fusileers, an independent uniformed 
company of New York City Militia in 1775, consolidated into Colonel John 
Lasher's Regiment as the 1st New York Independent Battalion of Volunteers 



202 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

On Monday, the 29th of January, 1770. they voted to volunteer in the United 
States Service as Minute Men. and early in February were placed on duty on 
Bayard's Hill. 

During the Spring of 1776 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier- 
General 'John Morin Scott, and on the following 21st of June, Major of B. 
He was present at the Battle of Long Island, in the engagement at Harlem 
Heights and at the Battle of White Plains. 

Brigadier-General Scott, on the 5th of November, t 776, addressed a com- 
munication to the New York Convention, presenting Main Fish's name for 
appointment. 

" I can honestly recommend him as well qualified for that rank. This I am sure of, there 
is not a better brig M r in the army. Indeed 1 have not seen one who can do the duties of 
so well as he, except Major Henley, and 1 think he does not exceed him. In 
other departments of his present appointment he gives me great satisfaction 

This recommendation was supplemented by one from Colonel H. B. Living- 
ston of the 4th Regiment. New York Continental Infantry — dated at Peekskill, 
24th of November. 1770 — asking that he be appointed Major in his regiment. 
He was. however, appointed Major of the 2d Regiment, New York Continental 
Infantry — Colonel Van Cortland; — to date from 21st of November. 1776. 

He was with his regiment in the battles oi Bemis' Heights and Schuyler- 
ville, and pursuant to General Washington's orders — dated Army Headquarters. 
Valley Forge, 29th March, 1778 — was detailed as the Brigade Inspector of 
Brigadier-General Enoch Poor's command, and in 177S Division- Inspector under 
Steuben. At the Battle of Monmouth he commanded a corps of light 
infantry, and subsequently accompanied General Sullivan's campaign against 
the Six Nations, and by his order — dated Tiog . 23d of August, 1779 — was 
detailed as the Inspector. 

Under La Fayette he served in the light infantry during the campaign of 
marching with his regiment to Virginia, and taking an active part with 
Hamilton's corps in the engagements which resulted in the surrender of Lord 
Cornwallis at Yorktown on the 19th of October, 1781. 

In 1782 he was with the main army, under General Washington at Ver- 
planck's Point, West Point, and at the Cantonments near New Windsor, until 
the close of the war. 

He possessed, in a high degree, the confidence of Washington. Schuyler, 
I a layette and Hamilton, and with the army the character of an excellent 
disciplinarian and a gallant soldier. 

Appointed Adjutant-General oi the State of New York in April, 1786. 

When our relations with France threatened a collision, Washington, again 
placed at the head of the army, was overwhelmed with applications from old 




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II1K SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. :Oj 

officers for positions, and writing to Knox (then Secretary of War), on the 
i 9U1 of August, i 792 : 

" Not having thought of any character more eligible for Adjutant -General than Major 
Fish, I request that he may be sounded or even directly applied to. Should he be indisposed to 
the office some other must be appointed without delay." 

In 1704 he received an additional evidence of Washington's appreciation, 
the supervision .of the revenue. In New York he was elected an Alderman 
from 1S06 to 1817, and was elected the President of the Cincinnati Society of 
New York in the years 1797 and 1805. He married Elizabeth Stuyvesant, by 
whom he had five children. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

HAMILTON FISH* (Honorable), his eldest son, was admitted in 1834. 
He was born in the City of New York, 3d August, 180S. Graduated at Colum- 
bia College in 1827. After reading law in the office of Peter Augustus Jay, he 
was, in 1830, admitted to the bar. £Jeci£xL_to_J_he State Legislature in 1837, / 
and a Member of Congress from 1843 to 1845 ; Lieutenant-Governor of New 
York from 1847 to 1849, and Governor from 1849 to 1851 ; United States 
Senator from 185 1 to 1857, and Secretary of State, March 1 tth, 1869, to 
1877. He also held other offices of trust: President of the Union Defence 
Committee, and the Joint High Commission to adjust the Alabama, Fisheries 
and Boundary Claims with Great Britain, and Plenipotentiary to sign the 
treaty in 1S71 ; President of the New York Historical Society, one of the 
Trustees of Columbia College, the Astor and Lenox Libraries, the Peabody 
Fund, and since 1S54 the President-General and since 1855 the President 
of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati. Received from Columbia 
in 1850, from Union in 1870 and from Harvard in 1871, the honorary degn 
LL.D. 



GEORGE FLEMING 

Captain New York Artillery. 

Died 2d of October, 1822. 

Appointed First Lieutenant in Captain Sebastian Bauman's Company of the 
New York Artillery on the 16th of April, 1776, ami on the 19th attached to 
Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment. 



Mi Stuyvesant I.e Roy and Mr. John Neilson, gran re admitted in 1S60 as life 

members under the resolution of 1857. 



THt: SOC \ . NNATI. 

Promoted to be Captain-L • 1 — . apon the tra- - 

of his company to the »d Regime - 

Lamb's — and after the discharge of the -traent, 

in that regiment on the 9th of \ veml er, - 
Bauman pr His mpany was 3 light an ssig 

of the Lig '. - ■ - a light and in 

\ - - to the - r La Fayette. He re i the Art 

New Wit sol st of Deeemfc " 5 ag ssig 

I ofantry Division, in 
La - - the 1 st of Sept hile in camp 

• rtony 
:es. 
In - - 5 sent g - : . then in 

ss - the Brit.- 

and honorably 
. ' _ '• inted 

nt on the 22 . - - He remained 

5i2. His - e Halt-Pay K 



DOU W T. F O N D E Y * 

Die - , N. V. 

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grist, 17? His 

- n the Half-Fay R 



J O H N F O X D F Y t 

Was 1st Xe V rk Regiment — 

Sehaick's. His Roll. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 205 

JOHN FONDEY (M.D.), grandson, was elected to membership in 1859, 
but failed to qualify by signing the Institution. He had an elder brother, 
William Hunn Fondey, who married Harriet Wilson. 



JOSEPH FOOT 

Lieutenant 1st Massachusetts Regiment. 

Appointed an Ensign'm the 12th Massachusetts Regiment — Colonel Ebenezer 
Sprout's. Promoted to be Lieutenant of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment on the 
6th of March, 1779. 

He was buried by the Society in 1807. 

THEODOSIUS FOWLER 

Captain 21/ New York Regiment. 

Born at East Chester, Westchester County, N. Y., on the 11th of May, 1753. 
Died on the 12th of October, 1841. 

The following was written by him for the New York State Society of the 
Cincinnati, of which he was Treasurer in 179431x1 from 1820 until his decease: 

"I was appointed the eldest Ensign in the New York Line, either in February or March, 
1770, in the 1st New York Regiment, commanded by General Alexander McDougall ; was pro- 
mote 'I to a Second Lieutenantcy in the same regiment on the 10th of August, 1776 ; to be First 
Lieutenant on the 21st of November, 1776, in the Fourth Battalion of the New York forces of 
Continental Troops ; and was promoted to be a Captain in the said regiment on the 28th of 
June, 1778, my commission bearing date April 23d, 177S. 

"In the latter end of the year 1780, or beginning of 17S1, I was transferred to the 2d New 
York Regiment, where I was continued to the end of the War of the Revolution with the rank of 
( aptain. 

" During the whole period of my service I was not absent fifty days from the army, either in 
Summer or Winter. 

" In 1776, while in the 1st New York Regiment, I was at the Battle of Long Island, and 
our regiment was one of the last which retreated from the Island. In the next campaign I was 
in the army of dates, and attached to the brigade of General Poor, in the left wing of the army, 
which was under the immediate command of General Arnold, and was in both battles previous to 
the capture of Burgoyne. 

"After this our brigade was ordered t>> join General Washington, at White Marsh, where 
the army went into Winter quarters at Valley Forge ; what it there suffered is too well known to 
need any description from my pen. 

"The next campaign the British left Philadelphia. I was attached to the light infantry 
regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley, and acted as Adjutant during our pursuit of the enem) in 
their retreat through Jersey, until we overtook them at Monmouth. 

" In that battle our regiment encountered the 42d Highlanders an.l 2d Battalion of British 
Guards ;' making but two (ires we went through their line with the bayonet, and made tremendous 
slaughter. Colonels Dearborn and Willett, if alive, can testify to this fact. 



206 TH1 -"« II 1 Y OF I III C INl INN \ 1 [. 

" After this the army moved on to White Plains, where I was attached to a regiment of 
light infantry, commanded h\ Colonel Richard Butler. During this period we had a little affair 
with a Hessian corps of horse and foot, at Dobb's Ferry, where we surprised them early in the 
morning. It wis so arranged that my company or platoon was stationed below thirty or forty of 
the enemy, whom 1 completely stopped by charging bayonets, and killed and took prisoners more 
than my command. I was highly complimented by Colonel Butler on this occasion. The ensuing 
Winter the New York troops were chiefly ordered up on the Mohawk River ; the 4th New York 
Regiment, to which 1 belonged, was stationed at Canajoharie. 

" Early in the Spring I, then commanding a company of light infantry, was ordered to join 
a , orps at Fort Schuyler, which was then commanded by Colonels Van Schaick and Willett, for 
the purpose of pursuing > lil ion against the Onondaga Nation. We completely surprised 

them, killed many and took upward ol thirty prisoners. 'This was as severe service as any I 
.red during the war, for the number of days ; it was the middle of April, 1779, the Winter 
tsl In. iking up. and the snow still covered the ground. 
1 In our return to quarters at Canajoharie our regiment, together with several other regi- 
ments which joined us at that place, was put under the command of General James Clinton. 
This army, consisting of about two thousand live hundred men, left the Mohawk with two 
hundred bateaux, and conveyed them across the country to Otsego lake. The outlet of this 
lake we dammed, and remained there about six weeks. This country was then an entire 
wilderness. 

" From this place we proceeded down the Susquehanna River with our two hundred boats, 
loaded with men and provisions, with the exception of the light infantry and rifle corps, which, 
under the command ol Colonel William Butler, acted as a guard to the boats. I was with the 
light infantry, which marched on the right flank, until we arrived at Tioga River, a branch of 
the Susquehanna ; here we met with General Sullivan with an army equal to our own, who took 
the command 1 fthe whole From this we proceeded through the Indian country, after a battle 
fought at Newtown, where we defeated the whole of the Six Nations, with some British troops. 

" Alter this battle there was a report from the Commissary that the provisions were short to 
complete the expedition, in consequence of which the army agreed unanimously to live on short 
allowance, which we did lor forty days, by which means the campaign was completed by destroy- 
ing the Indian country to Seneca town, beyond the Genesee Kiver. 

" During this expedition the army suffered very much. When we returned to the Susque- 
hanna my First Lieutenant, who was left there, and with whom I had served three campaigns 
before, did not recognize me, so much was 1 reduced. 

" The Winter ol 1 779-80 the army under General Washington cantoned back of Morristown, 
New |erse) , and suffered much from the want of provisions. 

" In the campaign ol 1780 I commanded a light infantry company, ami served under General 
la Fayette. In this year the New York line of live regiments was reduced to two, the first 
commanded by Co',::. ■ \ mi Schaick, and the second by General Van Courtlandt ; to the lattei of 
which I was attached, and served in it the residue of the war. 

" During the Winter of 17 so si our regiment was stationed at Fort Schuyler. In the 
September of 17S1 the two New York regiments were ordered down to Virginia, and aided at 
Yorktown in capturing the British Army under Comwallis. The New York troops escorted the 
last of the British troops to Fredericksburg; from thence we proceeded to New Jersey, and it 
was noi until January, 17S2, that we arrived at our ground for cantonment, on the Highlands or 
mountains hack of Pompton, for Winter quarters. This was a very severe Winter until February. 

" The ensuing campaign the army under Genera/ Washington remained chiefly at Y erplanck's 
Point, and late in the Fall the whole army went into Winter quarters, and cantoned back of N, u 
Windsor and V wburgh. There the army was disbanded, and I with the rest, in the Summer of 
17s; THEOD. FOWLER." 

His name- appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

THEODOSH S OLIVER FOWLER, his only son, was admitted in 1843, 

ami died in 1801, having been Assistant Treasurer in 1S50. 



THE SOI II IV ill I IU c INI INN All. 207 

THEODOSIUS AUGUSTUS FOWLER, grandson and son of the last 

was admitted in 1862. He died without male issue in 1882. 

DE GRASSE BOSTWICK FOWLER, grandson and brother of the last, 

was admitted in 1885. 



JOSEPH FRILICK 

Lieutenant 2d New \'<>>k Regiment. 

Appointed Lieutenant of the Seventh Company 2d New York Regiment — 
( 'olonel Van Cortlandt's. 

Honorably discharged the service, with his regiment, on the 3d of Novem- 
ber, 1783. His name appears on the Half Pay Roll. 



JOHN FURMAN 

Lieutenant \st New York Regiment. 

He appears to have been prominent as an early patriot in Dutchess County, 
being a signer, and one of those selected to procure signatures to " the Asso- 
ciation," to prepare for the contest through which he served. 

Was commissioned as Second Lieutenant of the Third Company of the 5th 
New N ink Regiment— Colonel Lewis Du J5ois — on the 2rst of November, 1776. 
Taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery on the 6th of October, 1777, being 
then a Lieutenant of the Fifth Company of the 1st New York Regiment — Van 
Schaick's. 

llr served through the war, and at its close was honorably discharged the 
service, with his regiment, on the 3d of November, 1783. His name appears 
on the Half-Pay Roll. 

DANIEL GANO 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Born in North Carolina on the 1 ith of November, 175H. 
lb was the second son of the Reverend John Gano, the Brigade Chaplain. 
Appointed Second Lieutenant of the 1st Regiment New York Continental 
Infantry — Colonel McDougall's— on the 28th of June, 1775, and served in the 



208 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 

Canada Campaign with it. Recommended to the New York Convention by 
Captain Richard Varick on the 28th of October. 1776, for continuance in the 
army on its reorganization. 

Lieutenant Pelton, in his report, alludes to him as follows : 

" A 1 ' PoiNl Li \ 1.' — Batter} began to play }d April, four 12 pounders, now three, a Bomb 
Battery on Heights of Abraham, snow seven feet deep. Mott well. Hughes with him. Gano 
well. Goforth very fit. at Three Rivers, — not more than a Company there in the Regiment, — 
th more respected and feared than any man there. Heard at Camp that Troops left Boston 
1 jtli April— Canadians exp cl i>«cls from 4th to 10th May, this year 20th May. That General 
Schuyler is driving with great spirit, has seen nothing like him. Nicholson at Quebec when he 
came away- A recruiting, Clinton well. Must storm, 350 in all, winter Blockade — Carleton 

12 or 14. Met General Thomas 22d April between Ticonderoga and Crown Pt. General 
i hard money at Montreal. Yorkers paid in paper before Quebec, that they are very 
cautious how recommendations (for promotion I are given to Xew York officers. Nicholson 
appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Canada Regiment. Passed Romans at Stillwater, Captain 
Sloan last thursday week, left about 401, there, about 600 at Ticonderoga — nothing new- at Crown 
Point. lew lent his boat to bring Colonel Arnold to Ticonderoga — Captain Tew was 

sent to Crown Point and remains on board of Sloop ' Enterprize.' under command of llalsey a 
lawyer, and Commodore Matthews in the Schooner ' Atkinson.' who is now with Sloan, has been 
12 or 1 ', year- at the Lake" 

Appointed Second Lieutenant 5th Regiment. Xew York Continental Infantry 
— Colonel Lewis Du Bois — on the 26th of June. 1776, but resigned, with Lieu- 
tenants Aorson, Piatt, Pearse and Van Wagenen, in July. 177''. on finding that 
they would be ranked by juniors.* 

Reappointed Second Lieutenant — Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Conti- 
nental Artillery — 14th of September, 1776. 

Honorably discharged, with his regiment, by expiration of service, 31st of 
December, 1 776. 

He was subsequently appointed Captain-Lieutenant 2d Regiment Conti- 
nental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb — 1st of January 1777. and again 
honorably discharged at his own request. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 



JOHN GANO 

Brigade Chaplain New York Brigade. 

Born at Hopewell, N. J.. 22d of July, 1727. Died at Frankfort, Kentucky, 
10th of August, 1S04. 

His ancestors, Francois Ganeaux and son Stephen, French Huguenots, 
emigrated from Guernsey, and settled at Xew Rochelle, X. Y , where the name 



nir biographil Aorsen. 




Rev. Stephen i A. M. 

DECEMBER 25. 1762 - AUGUST IS 

' the First Bapt P .■ . del i R. I 179: 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 2O0. 

became Anglicized. Daniel, the son of Stephen, was the father of the Chaplain. 
He commenced his career in Virginia, and continued his calling in New 
Jersey and the Carolinas. In December, 1760, he was called to the Baptist 
Church in Philadelphia, and in 1761 collected the first Baptist Congregation 
together in New York City, and became their pastor. 

On the breaking out of the Revolution he was appointed the Chaplain of 
the 7th Connecticut Continental Infantry— Colonel Charles Webb— on the 1st 
of January, 1776. This regiment, at the request of Washington, volunteered 
for six weeks additional service, when he was offered by its Colonel and officers 
and those willing to serve again an appointment in the new regiment in which 
they were seeking to enlist; but having been tendered the Chaplaincy of Colonel 
Lewis Du Bois' 5th New York Continental Infantry, already completed and 
stationed at Fort Montgomery, he accepted it, and was commissioned on the 
21st of November, 1776. 

The following from Leake's Memoirs of Colonel Lamb shows his ability as a 

soldier as well as a Chaplain : 

" Colonel Lamb, after the investment of the Fort, was ordered by Governor Clinton to the 
water batteries where a heavy attack had begun, sustained by a part of the enemies flotilla which 
had approached within striking- distance. While busily engaged in the defence a drummer boy — 
afterward General Godwin, of Paterson. N. J. — finding his vocation of little use accosted Colonel 
Lamb and begged that he might have a musket. On account of his youth, and presumed inex- 
perience, he was at first refused, but the little fellow cried so with vexation and disappointment 
that Colonel Lamb ordered him to be supplied with arms, and side by side, with the A'< verend Mr. 
Gano the Chaplain, he waited the advance of the storming party. * * * * The defenders 
of the Fort were much scattered, and part of the parapet on the opposite side had been sealed 
and in possession of the enemy. The Reverend and valiant Chaplain having ascertained this, 
and that the defences, on Lamb's side, would soon be assailed in the rear, advised him of the 
fact : * * * * orders were given to cut their way through the enemy. This was done and 
rushing down the outside of the parapet a part of the garrison, Lamb sword in hand at their 
head, escaped." 

Promoted on the 18th of August, 1778, Chaplain of General James Clinton's 
New York Continental Brigade, and marched with it, cooperating with General 
Sullivan in his expedition to rebuke the ravages of Brant and Butler's followers 
in the victory of Newtown. 

He prepared a narrative in 1790 of his own career, which was published by 
his son, the Reverend Stephen Gano, an honorary member of this Society, from 
which Mr. Henry T. Drowne has furnished me the following : 

" Dr. Gano was delayed from terminating his military services at the surrender of Yorktown, 
tarrying on the way, by General Clinton's orders, to minister to a sick Aide-de-Camp." 

When peace was agreed upon by Congress on the 11th of April, 1783, 
General Washington, on the 21st, through Colonel David Humphrey, announced 



2 10 THK SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

its general proclamation to Sir Guy Carleton, the British commander, but 
General Heath, in his Memoirs, says : 

" It was settled exactly eight years after the battle of Lexington, and its announcement, 
before the army, on the 19th April, at noon. The proclamation of Congress for a cessation of 
hostilities was read at the door of the New Building followed by three huzzas, a prayer by the 
Reverend Mr. Gano, and an anthem sung and performed by vocal as well as instrumental music." 

Honorably discharged November 3d, 1783, with his brigade. In 1784 he 
was elected a member of the Standing Committee of this State Society. He 
subsequently became a Regent of the New York University and a Trustee of 
Columbia College. In the year 1778, removing to Kentucky, he labored for 
the Lord until he was called away by his Maker. His name appears on the 
Half- Pay Roll. 



PETER GANSEVOORT 

Colonel 3</ New York Regiment. 

Born at Albany. N. Y., 17th of July, 1749. Died 2d of July, 1812. 

He was one of the many officers of the New York I ine who could recall 
the patriotism and achievements of their forefathers in the Low Countries in 
its defence against the invasions of the Spaniards, Austrians, Italians and the 
sea. 

Appointed by Congress on the 19th of July. 1775. Major of the 2d New 
York Regiment — ColonelVan Schaick's — and immediately joined in the brilliant 
campaign of Montgomery to Canada. 

Promoted 10 be Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment on the 19th of March, 
1770. and on the 30th of the following July appears, from a letter addressed to 
the Convention in New York, as in command at Fort George at the mouth 
of the Niagara River, supervising the falling back of our troops. 

On the 22d of October. 1776. he was one of the Committee of Safety, where 
at the Saratoga Headquarters (Schuyler's house), rearranging the New York 
Line, it was agreed "that General Schuyler should pay one thousand dollars 
into the hands of Colonel Gansevoort, to be repaid by the Committee ; the 
Colonel to pay the money out in one hundred dollars at a payment to the 
recruiting Captain." 

Promoted to be Colonel of the 3d New York Regiment on the 21st oi 
November, 1776. In April. 1777, he took command of Fort Schuyler (which 
was built by -Colonel Dayton in June, 1770, by orders of General Schuyler, near 
the remains of the old fort built in 1750. by Brigadier-General John Stanwix, 
to protect that important Oneida carrying place;, and gallantly defended it 





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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 211 

against the British and Indians under Colonel Barry St. Leger, who arrived on 
the 3d of August, 1777. On the morning of the 6th inst. Brigadier- General 
Nicholas Herkimer, with the Tryon County Militia hastening to his relief, was 
unfortunately wounded and his forces defeated in the engagement in the 
swamp at Oriskany, and on the same day, in order to effect a division in his 
favor, Lieutenant-Colonel Marinus Willett made his successful sally from the 
fort, destroying the camp of the enemy and capturing all his stores and 
baggage. 

On the 10th inst. General Schuyler sent Colonel Gansevoort the following 
letter from Albany : 

" Deai; Colonel: A body of troop left yesterday and others are following to raise the 
of Fort Schuyler. Ever) bod) here believes you will defend it to the last, and I strictly enjoin 
you so to do. General Burgoyne is at Fort Edward, our army at Stillwater, great re-enforcements 
coming from the Eastward, and we trust, all will be well and that the enemy will be repulsed." 

On the 9th inst. Colonel Gansevoort sent the following reply to St. Leger's 
demand to surrender the fort : 

" Sir : In answer to your letter of this days date, I have only to say that it is my deter- 
mined resolution, with the forces under my command to defend this Fort at every hazard to the 
last extremity, in behalf of the United American States who have placed me here to defend it 
against all their enemies 

" I have the honor to be Sir 

' ' Your most obedient and humble Servant 

" PETER GANSEVOORT, 

" Colonel Commanding, &c." 

When General Arnold arrived on the 24th inst., St. Leger and his savages 
fled in confusion, thus preventing their marching in triumph, and recruiting 
all the way down the Mohawk Valley as was anticipated by the British, and 
cooperating with Burgoyne before Albany, in the enemy's attempt to open 
the Hudson River. Colonel Gansevoort in thus holding the fort, contrib- 
uted essentially to the embarrassment and defeat of the latter, and received 
the thanks of Congress. 

In the Spring of 1779 he was ordered to join General Sullivan in the 
Western Expedition, where he distinguished himself by surprising the Lower 
Mohawk Castle and capturing the Indians in their stronghold. 

[n 1781 the State of New York appointed him a Brigadier-General, entrust- 
ing him with the responsible duties as Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the 
fortifying the frontiers. 

Colonel Gansevoort married Catharina Van Schaick, by whom he had five 
sons and one daughter, Maria— Mrs. Melville. His name appears on the Hall 
Pay Roll. 



212 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

HERMAN" GANSEVOORT, his eldest son. was admitted in iSij. dying 
in March. 1S62, at his residence in Saratoga County, without issue.* 



BENJAMIN GILBERT 

Lieit 

Appointed Ensign in the 1st New York Regiment — c' 3 haick's — 

21st of N "" >r which he was recommended by John 

- *r, then commanding the 1st New York Battalion. 

Promoted to be mt of the - Company in the same regiment, 

ame appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



AOUILA GILES 

Staff rank of Ml: 

ig sketch contributed by Mr. T. Ba 

Died Sth of April, 1822 

VYhile little is r. -- 5 to the early life of this once prominent 

:ter. and no record to define even his military career, more than ordinary 

- rch has been amply rewarded in col acting - intelligence washed 

re in the flow of his later useful life, sufficient even now to make it 

articulate. 

Mr. William Kilby, of the New York Historica - states that one 

•rthur Helme, commanding the pr ned cruiser " Ranger," 

sailed, in 1746. in the old French wai a -" the uncomfortably near eneim 
of the British Colonies. That marrying Jane Appleby, their second child, 
Frances, in May. 1759. became the wife of Samu. - and that their two 

- Aquila and James, were the - ts of notice here. That their mother, 

when aw who, in Jui -■ is Barrack- 

Master in New York, and perhaps influenced their military career. 

This, as to Major Giles, cannot be traced by reg 5, and 

it is evident that as his manhood and the culmination of the long-pending 
differences between the Home Government and her Colonies chanced to 
mature at the same time, he sought service at once, as is often usual with 

* Peter Gar- ? - - - -.der ihe r^~ 

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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 2 13 

gentlemen, in staff duty and under appointment in orders. He is early found 
as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Arthur St. Clair — 

" An English officer serving in the French war in America, of the Caithness family in Scot- 
land, and a grandson of the Earl of Roslyn, but who had found a stronger influence to remain in 
America and assume her cause by marrying the daughter of Belshazza Bayard and Mary Bowdoin 
• if Iloston, half sister of the Governor. 

" St. Clair came with Boscowan's fleet in 1758, and after serving with Amherst and Wolfe, 
settled in Pennsylvania, surrounded by the comforts his fortune and position afforded. He 
entered the service at the outbreak of the Revolution, rose rapidly to Major-Genera I, and served 
with varied fortune but reputation." 

The selection by him of Giles as one of his military family, evidenced his 
culture and the promise which the young aspirant later fulfilled. 

Giles' rank in the army, or staff position, was not such as to command much 
notice in cotemporary history, and was naturally included in that of his chief. 
There are doubtless details of his service scattered in private collections of 
manuscripts, those quiet conservators of material for future printed detail 
which constantly supply them and make history reliable, when consulted in an 
age more generally intent on its present than upon details of its growth and 
existence. His early presence at the depot of prisoners at Flatbush, L. I., is 
an evidence of service in the field and disaster ; but whether taken at the 
battle cf Long Island, its sequence, the capture of Fort Washington, or 
detached duty, is not found. 

In General J. Watson Webb's memorial of his father, Colonel Samuel B. Webb, 

originally of the Connecticut State Society, may be found allusion to the 

manner in which an unfortunately collected group of gallant young soldiers 

passed their enforced leisure there, intent on finding pleasure even in disaster. 

As an example, Webb's friend and Adjutant Hopkins, writing him on the 7th 

of March, 1779, while absent on a brief visit to his home, and giving local 

details, such as is enjoyable to youth, says : 

" Major Giles will be able to inform you respecting the half-way house (probably Colonel 
William Axtell's mansion), and Limboshire, a pseudonym for their place of bondage." 

One of these was doubtless the detail of the attraction he was finding at 
" Melrose Hall," the stately and extended mansion of Axtell, the local magnate 
who had married the daughter of Colonel Abraham De Peyster (then still a 
great power of the State), at times as President of the Council, Acting 
Governor, Chief-Justice of the Colony, Mayor of the City, and from estate and 
family influence occupying as many actual positions as those now delineated 
by the fictive and evanescent " Mikado." 

Colonel Axtell was also a member of the Provincial Council, 1773-5. Com- 
manded a regiment in the British service, and was so entrusted with the custody 
of those prisoners located on or about the Georgian mansion, and finely culti- 



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vated estate, where he resided with his family, surrounded by the evideru es ol 
prosperity. Included in this was Miss Eliza Shipton, the attractive niece, who 
became si> interested in Majoi t'.iles. the prepossessing young rebel, again cap- 
tured by her charms, as to i aus< his exclusion from the mansion. But love again 

•• laughed at the locksmith," and on the ,;oth of October, 1780 -ten days before 
his exchange — they were privately married. Other losses followed her uncle. 

On the 22d of October, 1770. the Legislature of the ( inder the new 

Government, had passed an " Act of attainder." levelled .11 the property oi the 
adherent-- oi the old. In it is a list of fifty-nine loyalists, with Lord Dunmore 
,xn^\ ( fryon, recent royal Governors, at the head, and " Sii Henry 

Clinton, Knight oi the Bath," at the foot, .is owners oi property in the State, 
and the others all prominent m it> early history, t' William \\tell is 

found in the eighth place. It was a harsh use of power, falling uoon many 
with whom loyalty to the flag under which they were born, even when upheld 
to 1 over some oppressions, was a sentiment, and has not been a precedent 
when in later warfare the position was changed. 

This I \ xtell did not go to the block as did his ancestor, with opposite 

convictions, on the restoration of Charles the 11., but passed into exile. 

When the Commissioners of Forfeiture sold his estate, on the 2.1st oi 
October, 17 84, by a turn of the weather-cock of life > 'Giles became the 

purchaser of the once occluded mansion, and resided in luxury upon the scene 
of his captivity, until June. 1809, a-- an important rural citizen. The exhuma- 
tion of most of these fact- i> due to the labors of the indefatigable Stiles in his 
interesting " King> County and Brooklyn." 

By a coincidence. General St. (.'lair was at Ambey on the 9th of March. 
1 780, negotiating the cartel, in which his Aide-de-Camp was included. Whether 
he was with his chief when one oi Afajoi Andre's judges in the same autumn, 
or in the next year in suppressing the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line, suffer- 
ing from delayed pay at Vorktown, or in the South cooperating with G< 
Greene, as is probable, private sources o\o not disclose. History, in its neces- 
sary condensation, like the astrologer in tracing the comet, overlooks the 
astroloids, \ can the period be fixed at which, as is claimed, he 
temporarily as to Washington, Such temporary service of many 

officers is admittedly omitted in the printed lists. 

He is recalled as an efficient officer, a man of intelligence, and of attractive 
presence and manner, all valued with other elements by an experienced com- 
mander in the selection of his staff, verifying the adage. "Show me the man 
and I will tell you the company he keeps." He held many positions incident 
to these qualifications, representing Queens County in the 1 egislature from 
178810*92; was trustee of the old St. Anne's Church in Brooklyn after the 



THE SOI II IV OF THE CINCINNATI. 215 

reorganization in 1787, and vestryman in 1797; a trustee of Erasmus Hall 
in Flatbush from 1787: an active patron of the Kings County Agricultural 

Society; and Marshal of the United Stati 1 (a position of 

honor) front 4th ol May, 1792,10221! of December, t8oo ; Lieutenant-Colonel 
of Kings County Militia, 1795; a special trustee for preserving peace in New 
York, 28th of February, 1810 ; Major- General of Cavalry there from 2d of 
Man h, 1814. He was Vice-President in 1797 and from 1810 to 1821, a mem- 
ber of the Standing Committee of the New York State S01 iety of the 
Cincinnati. 

The following is the notice of his funeral from the "Commercial Adver- 
tizer " : 

" Genei m 11,1,1 New Vork, gth April [822. 

" The members of the New York Stal ol the Cincinnati an requi led to attend the 

funer.-il mi \fajoi Aquila Giles, from his late residence, No. 70 Varied Si , this afternoon al 1 
o'clock. The usual badgi of mourning will be worn for |0 days Major Giles was a highly 

meritorious officei during oui Revolutionary war, and had the h 1 ol an appointment .is \ i ■ 1 < - 

de-Camp to \fajo% Generate [ lair. By order of 

"D, E. Dunscomb, Secretary. RICHARD VARICK, President. 

" N. li. — The officers of the United States Army, the officers ol the Cavalry in uniform, of 
whii h hi was formerly the Major-General, art particular!) requested to atti nd hii n mains to the 
gravi , a liki isi tl I the artillery and infantry generally. 

" Major- Generali Mapes and Laighl ol the 2d and ;ul Divisions request their officers to 
unite, and Ma f General Morton and Brigadier-General Steven order theii artillery commands 
to direct detail foi \fajot GeneralGW obsequies." 

Ihs name appears on the Half- Pay Roll.* 



JAMES GILES 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

I >ied in Vugust, 1825. 

Resided in New York City. He entered the service, in 1778, as a Commis- 
si/ 1 ol Military Stores to the Artillery. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in the 2d Regimenl Continental (dps of 
Artillery - Colonel Lamb's— on the 21st of July, 1779. serving in Captain George 
Fleming's Company, and as Adjutant of the same on the n t ol August, i\ 

He associated with the New [ersey State Societ) ol the Cincinnati on the 
.lth of July, 1789, upon his removal to that State aftei the war, and became a 
Brigadier-General of the Militia and the Clerk of the County of Cumberland. 
I lis name appears on the I talf- Pay Roll. 



Will. his youngest grandson, repn ents him in the Society, having been 

admitted in I 60 i a life member under the resolution il 1857. 



2l6 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

JAMES GILLILAND 

Captain Sappers and Miners. 
Expelled from the Society on the 6th of July, 17170.* 

He came from the vicinity of Lake Champlain. 

Appointed Lieutenant in the New York Provincial Artillery Company — 
Captain Alexander Hamilton — 14th of March, 1776 Promoted to be Captain- 
Lieutenant ot t\\e same on the 26th of December, 1770. and on the same day 
General Washington, in General Orders from Headquarters at Moo 
West Poini ; him to report for duty to />'■■•. 1 leral (the Chevalier) 

l'u Pcrtail, Chief of th< Corps of Engineers. 

He is said to have been present at the affair at New York with the British 
ship." Asia," the battles oi Long Island, Harlem Heights, White Plains, the 
retreat through the Jerseys, the surprise of the Hessians at Trenton, Prim 
Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Vorktown, and at White Marsli 
from the 5th to the 8th ot" December, 1777. and in camp at Yall. \ 1 
loth of December, 1777. to 18th of June, 177S. 

The following General Order from General Washington was dated from 

Headquarters, gth o\ June. 177S : 

" Thro 1 tnd Nine Lieutenants are wanted to officer the Co is 

this Corps will In- ai netting, it opens a pros h gentlemen as outer it. and 

will pursue the necessary studies with diligence, of becoming Engineers, and rising to the 
important employment attached to that profession, such as the direction of fortified places \ 
The qualifications required of the Candidates arc. that they be natives, and have a knowledge of 
the mathematics and drawing, and arc disposed to apply themselves to these studies. They will 
give in their names at head quarters." 

This appeals to have been the origin of the Military School at West Point. 

ami James Gilliland was transferred to it with the rank of Captain on the 2d <'\ 

Vugust, 1770. as well as Captains Jonathan Lawrence' and Peter Taulman. 

The following is a letter from the Paymaster-General : 

New Y' 'kk 2d August, 1 785 
" Sik: The Commissioners lor settling the army accounts, to whom was referred the petition 
of James Gilliland, late a Captain in the Corps of Sappers and Miners, beg leave to report. — 
That notwithstanding Gilliland has stated in his petition that he served in the army to 

the end oi the war. it appears by the returns of the Corps and by the records of the \\ .11 Office, 
that he resigned his in on I he 9th of October, 1 7 S _-. which resignation, in the opinion of 

your Commissioners, debars him of the benefits of the Resolution of Congress oi the loth of 
September. 1776, granting lands, and of 2Isl I '7So, granting Half-pay for life to such 

officers as shall continue in service to the end of the war : that there is still due to James Gilliland 
some arrears of pay and Subsistence, Certificates for which will be issued to him on his application. 
" 1 have the honor to be your obedient servant. * JOHN PIERCE." 

" President ot Congress. " 

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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI 217 

CHARLES GRAHAM 

Captain $d New York Regiment. 

Died in 1 707, unmarried. 

Ik- was the son of James Graham and Arabella Morris, ami prominent in 
the organization for Independence in Dutchess County, N. Y. On the 5 1 1 1 of 
July, 1775, he and Henry Sherburne were the Sub-Committee who presented 
the names of the Associators, and signed for the North Easl Pre* ini t. 

Appointed First Lieutenant in the .(tli Regiment New York Continental 
Infantry — Colonel James Holmes — on the 28th of June, 1775. 

Resigned his commission as Lieutenant in Captain Smith's company in 
August, 1776. 

In the minutes of the Committee of Arrangements, 1st of January, 1777, is 

the following : 

" Timothy Smith. Ensign, told the Chairman thai In- declined serving, and Joshua Hubbard, 
a good looking young fellow, desires to be put in his room. Said Hubbard was a Corporal in 
Captain Charles Graham's Company, and from Suffolk County." 

Appointed Captain of the Third I ompany of the 2d Regiment Continental 
Infantry — Colonel Van Cortlandt's — under the new arrangement by the State 
Convention, 21st of November, 1776, and subsequently transferred to the .$d 
Regiment. 

He continued for six years in the service, until deranged in 17^0 by act of 
Congress. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

CHARLES GRAHAM,* Ins nephew, and eldest son of John Graham who 
was an Aide de-Camp to Governor Clinton, and the younger brother of Captain 
Charles, was admitted in 1819. He married Sarah M. Hunter, and died on the 
12th of February, 1X38. He was the Secretary of this Society for many years. 

JOHN HUNTER GRAHAM, eldest son of the last, was admitted in 
1842, and died without isstie in 1854. 

CHARLES GRAHAM, the next eldest, brother of John Hunter Graham 
and the great-nephew of Captain Charles, was admitted, 111 tin- succession, in 
.8 5 6.f 

1 xnt pagi 103. 
t William Irving Graham, a younger brother of ( harles Graham and lor several years Si 
tary of this Society, was admitted in i860 as a life member under the resolution ot 1557 He 
died in 1871. 



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] O H N G R A H A M 

• .V. .-. 1 

Died 7th of May. 1832. 

He - in the State Records as ar active patriot and Associator in 

Orange County. First Lieutenant of the Ulster County Militia in Col net Levi 
Pawling's R giment, serving with Brigadier-General George Clinton in March, 
---. and recommended by him - aptain for a position in the standing 

army. He had served as such in the Canada campaign, in the 2d Regiment 
of the New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Schaick's — from 2~\A\ of 
June. 1775, and was appointed its Major, in orders lames Clinton, 

camp at Canajoharie Creek. 19th of June. 17 70. His commission is claimed 
to be ante-dated from the 26th of March. 177 

He led the advance of < a s Reg tnent in the expedition 

g . nst the 1 Eras. 

From Albany G lames Clinton writes to his brother the c 

on the 15th of June. 1 - 

" I have ordered C S it to repair to this : ke command, in order to 

prevent the difficulties which may arise in this particular during my absence : this 1 was more 
incline u Graham is appointt _ nent." 

His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



STEPHEN GRAHAM 

s . t's Mate. 

He was stationed at the Hospital huts at New Windsor. 
In the proceedings of the Pr g 5S New York, on the 26th 

: November. 1778, is the following 

"Whereas informed that ab Soldiers jing Brad- 
lev's Regiment from C .-.nder the care of Lieutenant . are come to this place 

(Fishkilli. without - - whom are said I - -eing made to the 

Committee to provide a Physician for them : Resolved, Th:.: aham be authorized to 

ers for three Jays. That a letter be immediately despatched 
Heath, informing him of the . imstances, and that he will give his directions 

for disp - g -::ch of the men of the said Regiment now 3t this place, as are in health, and for 
taking care of the - 

His name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 2ig 

SILAS GRAY 

Captain \th New York Regiment. 

Died 19th of January, 1820. 

The following is from the State Records : 

"On the 20th of December, 1775, in the Committee of Arrangements at Fishkill, ' Mr. 
Gansevoort recommends Silas Gray (then an Ensign serving in 1775) as a good officer, and is 
worthy the notice of the Committee, that Colonel Gansevoort would be happy in having him 
appointed a Second Lieutenant in his 3d Battalion.' " 

He was so commissioned on the 20th of January, 1776, but was transferred 
in 1777 to the 4th Battalion — Co/one/ James Holmes. 

Promoted to be Li tit tenant in the 4th New York Regiment — Colonel Henry 
B. Livingston — on the 13th of March, 1777. Afterward promoted to be 
Captain in the same. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roil.* 

JOHN WHEELWRIGHT GREATON 

Ensign 3d Massachusetts Regiment. 

Born Boston, 1761. Died at New York in February, 1815, unmarried. 

His father, Reverend James Greaton, was the Rector of Christ's Church, 
Boston, in 1759. 

Appointed Ensign in Colonel John Greaton's 3d Massachusetts Regiment 
1 6th of July, 1782. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts State Society, but trans- 
ferred in 1796 to New York, "so long as he lived in the State." His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

JOHN WHEELWRIGHT GREATON, his nephew, was admitted to 
represent him in 1S60. He served on the Standing Committee as Assistant 
Treasurer and as a delegate to the triennial meetings of the Society for many 
years. 

JOHN GREEN 

Captain ( r nited States Navy. 

He was commissioned on the 10th of October, 1776, and promoted to be 
Captain in the Continental Navy on the nth of February. 1778. 

Was honorably discharged nth of April, 1783, having served to the end of 
the war. 



*John Franklin Gray, M.D., for many years Physician of this Society, was aJmitted in 1SG0 
as a life member under the resolution of 1857. He died in 1 ---'. 



220 nil SOCIE l'Y OF l 'HI l INCINN \ n. 

JAMES GREGG 

Captain ist Neio York Regiment. 

\\ as appointed Second Lieutenant 3d Regiment New York Continental 
[nfantry -Colonel Clinton's — 2d of August, 1775. 

Served in Canada, and was with that rank at times connected with the 
regiments of both Colonels Van Schaick and Du Bois, until promoted to be 
Captain in the former's — ist New York Regiment — on the 21st of November, 
1776. 

An incident of his subsequent extended service in that command is recorded 

in " Or. Thatcher's Military Journal " : 

" Before Fort Schuyler was invested bj Si Leger, the Indians in small parties annoyed the 
lently attacked individuals when away (rem their dwellings. On one occasion 
the)- tired upon three little girls who were out gathering blackberries; two were killed and 
scalped, but the th The remarkable adventure ol 1 i egg is worthy of notice. 

lie was "11 duty in the garrison and went out to shoot pigeons, with two of his soldiers and a bey 
named Wilson, » an Ensign in the army at the a hteen ami conducted the 

surrender of the British standards at Vorktown. Fearing the Indians th< boj was sent back. 
riuv had not proceeded fai before some savages in ambush shot all three down, scalped them 
and made off. The Captain, though badl) wounded, was not killed. His two soldiers, I* 
wire link's-,, and laying his bleeding head upon the body of one of them. In- expected soon to 
die. His dog had accompanied him, and itation, whined, licked his wounds and 

otherwisi manifested his griei and attachment, lie told the 1 foi help, and the animal, 

as it endowed with reason, at once obeyed. He ran about a mile and found two men fishing. 
ous moans he induced them to follow him to his wounded master. The Captain was 
earned to the Fort, and after suffering much was r< tored to health. The writer says, ' lie was 
a most frightful spectacle. Ih< whole of his scalp was removed, in two places on the fore part 
of his head the tomahawk had per. n was a wound on his hack with, the same 

instrument 1 wound in his - ice, and anoth( r through his arm with a musket balk' " 

lli- name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JAMES GRIER 

Lieutenants ; I Pennsylvania Regiment. 

He was an original member of the Pennsylvania State S j ol the Cin- 
cinnati, but affiliated with the New York State Society in 17S7. 

Ap] ..'tenant in Colonel William Thompson's Battalion of 

;ylvania Riflemen, in June, 177;. and promoted tube C of the same 

reli. 177(1, it being subsequently known as the ist Regiment Pennsylvania 

Continental Infantry — ( . I [ward Hand — his commission dating from 25th 

1 t ictober, 1 ; 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 22 1 

Promoted to be Major of the ioth Regiment Pennsylvania Continental 
Infantry — Coloit<:l Richard Humpton— 23d of October, 1777. Transferred to 
the 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Continental Infantry with his Colonel, on 
incorporation and reduction of the Pennsylvania Line, 17th of January, 1781. 
Transferred again, on a further reduci icorporation, to the 3d Regiment 

Pennsylvania Continental Infantry — Colonel Richard Butler — 1st of January, 

Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel (by brevet) on the 30th of September, 1783. 
lonorably discharged the service, with his regiment, 3d of November, 1783, 
having been wounded at the Battle of Brandywine on the nth of September, 
1777. His name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



JOHN GRIER 

Lieutenant 6lli Pennsylvania Regiment. 

Appointed First Lieutenant 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Continental Infantry 
— Colonel William Irvine— 9th of January, 1776, and was assigned to Captain 
Samuel Hay's Company, and was takfn prisoner, with a number of his com- 
pany, on the 24th of July, 1776, at Grand Isle, Canada. 

Hiving been rendered supernumerary by reason of his capture on the 
northern frontier, he was, on exchange, placed on leave of absence, and honor- 
ably discharged the service about the 1st of June, 1779. 

He was enrolled in the New York State Society of the Cincinnati in 1786. 



ISAAC GUION 

Captain- Lieutenant Neiu York Artillery. 

Born at New Rochelle, N. Y. Died at Natchez, Mississipp I try, 1825. 

He was a member of Captain John Bedell's Company of Minute Men, in 
Roundout Precinct, Dutchess County, on the 12th of September, 1775. 

The action of that company on that day appears worthy of mention as one 
of the indices of the regard for traditional usages and of the division in senti- 
ment that existed when the coming Revolution demanded radical changes. 

" At a meeting of the Militia, under the command of Captain John Bedell, the- persons hcre- 

1 were chosen as Military ' officers, out of the said Company by Eighteen persons, who 

are the number in the said Company that have Signed the Association. The remainder of the 

Company including officers, being against the measures recommended by Congress for regulating 

the Militia, voted unanimously for old officers who held their commissions under Government, 



222 THK SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

(the Dames of whom von have also hereunto anni t tin, Andrew Hill : First Lieutenant, 

Cornelius Brinckerhoff ; X. iomA Francis Wayman ; En \ iham La Doux. 

'i \ ,\ SCHENCK, 
Wll 1 1AM VAN WYCK, 
Persons who presided at the election." 

This appears in the State Records, signed by Isaac Guion with seventy- 
eight other malcontent members of the company. 

He served as a volunteer in Canada, but was there, on the 13th of April, 
1776, appointed, by teral David VVooster, S 1 ■' oi 

■:.::- Derrick Hansen's Company of Colonel John Nicholson's Regiment, 
New York Continental Infantry. 

He served until honorably discharged, with his regiment, on the 15th of 
Octol 

Appointed a 1 d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — 

Lamb's— 1st oi January, 1777, in which he served until the 1st of 

January, 1781. Having in the meanwhile been promoted, on the .msi of 

August, 1780, to be Captain .' 1 f, he was transferred to Captain John 

Doughty's Company of Artillery. 

Honorabl) discharged the service, with a portion of his regiment, on the 
1st of fanuary, 1784, and then returned to his home at New Rochelle, N. V. 

\ ipointed C jd Regiment United States Infantry on the i6th of 

March. 170; : transferred to the 3d Sub-Legion on the 2d oi September follow- 
ing, and then rearranged in the 3d L'nited States Infantry in reforming the 
regiment on the 1 st of November, 171)0. Appointed Brigade-Inspector on the 
i>t oi November, 1700, and served to the 1st of October. 1801. Promoted to 
be Major 3d United States Infantry on the 15th of February. 1 - 

Honorably discharged the service on reduction oi the army on the 1st of 
June, and settled in Natchez, Miss Appointed U - ites Surveyor 

and Inspector oi Revenue, at that place, in March, 1S21, which office lie held 
until his decease. His name appears on the Half- Fay Roll. 



HOYSTEED HACKER 

s ■ • - \ 

Died July. 1S14. 

He was commissioned a I I in the navy I the ^d of 

December, 1775. and on the toth oi October, 1770, as a Captain. 

In the destruction attending the lire at the British occupation of Wash- 
1 many records were lost. An application to the recently organized 



■III). SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 223 

Office (if Naval Intelligence in the Navy Department fails to open any further 
facts than that he commanded, in 1776, the United States Schooner " Fly " 
. and afterwards the United States Brig " Providi tii i la guns). 
He was admitted to the Society in 1790*, and received assistance from the 
fund until his death. 



MORDECAI HALE 

Surgeon's Mate. 

Died 9th of December, 1832. 

He was admitted by the New York Stati Societj on the 4th day of July, 
1819. upon ' ondition oi his paying one month's pay into the fund and subscrib- 
ing his name to the Institution, in accordance with his request, addressed to 
Colonel Ri< hard Varii k, then President, as follows ; 

"Sib I have always entertained the highest respect and veneration for the character and 
i m of my Brother Officers of thi 1 "iiary Army and I was much pleased when it 

! that they should [firm a the name "I Cincinnati. It was then my 

intention to 1 itely, and for .that purposi I gavi a friend of mine an 01 

Hi' Regimen 1 1 month's pay and reqm ted 1 to ubscribe my name and d 

the month's pa ;rei ibl) to the constitution, the latter of which he neglecl d to do. It has 
been my intention howevei to apply for admittance, but residing in the country and 
seldom having the amount of one month's pay to spare. I neglected making application until the 
ar and then not in writing, agreeably to the B) Law oi thi Societ) and oi course the 
subject was n ration I now ilnn tor very respectfully solicit you to lay my 

application before the Society and I confidently hope I shall hereaftei not only have the pleasure 

■ 1 g with them as Brothel Officers of the Revolution but also as a Member of the 

Cincinnati Society. I am Sir very respectfully your obt Serv'- 

New York July pi. [819 M. HALE." 

On the i-t of December following the Society appropriated forty dollars to 

pay his expenses from New York to Albany and back. 



JONATHAN HALLETT 

Captain 2d New York Regiment. 

Mi appears to ha red the ervice in the ist New York Regiment — 

Colonel Mi Dougall— in 1775. In the next year he « ted to be First 

Lieutenant and Adjutant ol the 3d New York Regimenl Colonel Ritzi 

The field offii unmending him as 

" A very excellent officer, is Adjutant of the regiment, and will make a very good Captain to 
.ve recommend him " 

* Sec ante % page 96. 



224 '1 HI iCIEI \ OF I 111 CIN( tNNATI 

I ommissioni >j the Third Company 2d New York Regiment — 

Colon ' Van Cortlandt's on thi il November, 1776, and appears in the 

returns of 17;.) and 1780 .1- commanding the Seventh Company. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



LUTHER HALSEY 

• tenant 2, \ Jersey Regiment. 

1 lied in j 

He was an original member of the New Jerse) Si it So< iety of the Cincin- 
nati, Inn affiliated with the V u Vo k in iSoi. 

s Battalion, First Establishment : Adjutant 2d Battalion, Second 

Establishment, .-Sib of November, 1770; Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 2d 
New fers - Regimenl 1 'onel Israel Shreve 9th ol November, 1777. Dis- 
charged at the close of the war. His name appeals on the Halt -Pay Roll. 

1 l 1 HER HALSEY, his sun. succeeded bun in the New Jersey State 
Si iety in 1835. 



ALEXANDER HAMILTON 

Lieutenant-Colonel am ! 1 imp. 

Letch furnished by Alexondei Hamilton, Jr. 

Born on the tith of January. 1757, in the Island of Nevis, West Indies. 
Died in New York on the 12th of July, 1S04.* 

His father was James Hamilton, fourth son ol Alexander Hamilton, of 
Grange and Cambus-Keith, one of the oldest cadet branches of the Scotch 
family of Hamilton. His mother was a daughter of a French Huguenot n 
Faucette. The only surviving child of his parents, es attracted the 

notice of Mr. Cruger and some generous friends, who sent him to this country 
to improve his education, and leaving the West Indies he landed in Boston in 
October, 177-', when he was fifteen y< ars ol age. 

He proceeded to New York, and soon entered a ichool at Elizabethtown, 
where he remained about a year, preparing himseli for college, and in the 
Winter of 1771 K.ings, now Columbia College. 



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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 225 

Before he could complete his collegiate course the troubles preceding the 
Revolution began, and though only seventeen years of age, he took an active 
part on the side of opposition to the Crown by pamphlets and speeches to 
prepare the Colonies for open and armed resistance. He began by study and 
drill to qualify himself as a soldier for the conflict, and on the ist of March, 
1776, he was appointed Captain of a New York Company of Provincial 
Artillery. In command of this company he took part in the battles of Long 
Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton and the crossing of the Raritan, until 
March ist, 1777, when he accepted the position of Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide- 
de-Camp on the staff of General Washington. He served in that capacity until 
the month of February, 1781, when he resigned the position. 

His connection with the Army of the Revolution was not closed, however, 
as he retained his commission, and at the head of a regiment of Light Infantry, 
with his old friend Nicholas Fish as Major, carried, at the point of the bayonet 
and in a few minutes, one of the British redoubts at Yorktown, on the 14th of 
October, 1781. 

The surrender of Cornwallis virtually ended the military struggle, and 
Colonel Hamilton, when all chance of further conflict was over, resigned his 
commission and commenced the practice of the law. 

His connection with the Army of the United States was not, however, at an 
end. In 1798, when the conduct of France drove the United States to the 
verge of hostility, both by sea and land, a large army was authorized, with 
Washington as General-in-Chief. As one of his conditions, Mr. Hamilton was 
appointed second in command as Inspector-General, with the rank of Major- 
General, another of Washington's conditions being that he should not take 
command personally until the army was called into the field. Upon General 
Hamilton fell the main duty and labor of organizing this army, a duty which 
he performed with his usual zeal and intelligence. Upon Washington's death, 
in 1799, General Hamilton succeeded to the chief command ; but the difficulty 
with France being settled amicably, the army was soon after disbanded. 

Colonel Hamilton was one of the earliest members of the Society of the 
Cincinnati, having signed the roll of the New York State Society as Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Aidede-Camp. He was an active member, and took much interest 
in the Society, acting on committees and preparing reports. The only offices 
he held in the Society were those of Vice-President of the New York State 
Society from 178S to 1793, and of President-General on the death of Washing- 
ton in 1799, which he held until his own. 

The Cincinnati Society showed their affection for him and regard to his 
memory by taking charge of his funeral and erecting a marble tablet (see ante, 
page 102) in Trinity Church, New York, with an inscription, much admired, 



226 THF SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

from the pen of the Reverend Doctor John M. Mason. His name appears on 
the Half-Pay Roll.* 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON", his eldest surviving son.f was admitted by 
the New York State Society in 1S06. He married Eliza Knox, and died at 
New Brunswick, N. ].. on the 2d of August, 1875, without issue. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Jr. son of James A. Hamilton who was 
the next surviving son of Genera/ Hamilton, was admitted by the New York, 
State Society as .1 life member in 1S60, under the resolution of 1857. Subse- 
quently, in 1876, at his father's death, he became the hereditary member in the 
is grandfather. He was chosen Treasurer in 1S74, Treasurer 
General in 1875, an( ^ elected, on the 4th of July, 1885, Vice-President of the 
New York State Society. 



ABIJAH HAMMOND 

Lieutena <\ . . ]fas sackusetts. 

Born at Cambridge, Mass,, 22d of February, 1757. Died 30th of December, 
1832. 

In 1776, at the age of nineteen, he joined the Continental \rmy as a mem- 
ber oi Captain Frothingham's Company of Artillery, which had been attached 
to Colonel John Crane's Regiment — formerly Knox's— and in the following 
1777, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant and served as such with his 
ic-nt. He was attached to the Adjutant-General's Department under 
Colonel Scammel, toward the close of the war. 

* His widow, Elizabeth, the daughter of General Schuyler, survived him over half a century, 
dying at Wa . November, tS54, at the age of ninety-seven years and three 

months. 

The following reply to this Society's letter to her, addressed to Lieutenant- 1 William 

Stephens Smith, then the President, is recorded in the minutes : 

" Ai 1 aw, August nth, 1804. 
Sir : To the distress of a heart so deeply afflicted as mine, from the irreparable loss of a most amiable and 
affectionate husband, I trust the respectable Society over which you preside will correctly impute the delay of an 
acknowledgement for theii couched in terms that evince that their sympathy emanates from 

the heart. 

" Although great mitigation ol thai affliction, with which 1 i, can only be hoped from 

the mercies of the Divine Being, in whose dispensations it is the ;i s creatures humbly and devoutly to 

acquiesce ; yet the wounded heart derives a degree of consolation from the tenderness with which its lot is bewailed 
by the virtuous, the wise and the humane, — and also from that high honor and respect with which the memory of 
the dear deceased has been commemorated by them, and those contemplated in the Resolutions of the Society of 
the Cincinnati, transmitted by you, and for which, you Sir, will be pleased to convey my warmest thanks to that 
respectable body. I reciprocate with sensibility your and their recommendation of me to the Divine care and 
protection. May they ever enjoy it and without alloy. 

" I am, Sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, &c 
'rat Hamilton's eldest son Philip was killed in a duel with Acker in 1S02. 




ABIJAH HAMMOND 



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Was present at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and 
Yorktown, and is said to have been in Fort Schuyler during the siege Vl 
Monmouth he was wounded, once by a sabre cut and again by a musket ball, 
arid a) Valley Forge endured the hardships of the Winter of 1 77 7- 7 s - 

When the army, after the war, was reorganized, Washington tendered him 
the command of an artillery regiment, which he declined, preferring to pass 
the remainder of his life at his beautiful and attractive residence on Throgg's 
Nei I , win-re he <hed in his seventy-fifth year, universally beloved and esteemed 
by all who knew him, having served his country well as a brave and intelligent 
officer. 

He married Catharine Ogden, and died, leaving three sons and two 
daughters. This Society elected him their Treasurer in 179,5. His name 
appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

CHARLES HENRY H VMMOND, his eldest son, was admitted in 1843, 
and died in 1849, unmarried. 

OGDEN HAMMOND, his second son, was in 1850 admitted by the South 
Carolina State Society. He died leaving issue- a daughter, Mis. Trenholm 
[nwood of ( harlcston, S. C. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON HAMMOND, his youngest son, sue, ceded 
him in the direi 1 male line, and was admitted by the New N ork State Si m ii 1 ) 
in 1875. He presented the Society, in 1876, with an oil painting of his father 
in full uniform. See ante, page 130. 

JOHN FRANCIS 1 1 AMTRAMCK 

Captain 2,/ Welt) York Regiment. 

Horn in Canada in 1757. Died at Detroit, Mi< h., nth of April, 1803. 

He was Captain of the Light Infantry Company of the 2d New \ ork Regi- 
ment — Colonel Van Cortlandt. On the 17th of March, 1777, the Committee of 

Arrangements, on the recommi ndatii i Colonels Livingston and Gansevoort, 

appointed him Captain in Colonel Lewis I in Bois' Regiment. 

After the war he was appointed \fajot of Infantr) on the 29th of Septem- 
ber, 1789; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the First Sub-Legion, on thi 18th 
of February, 1793, and Colonel on the 1st of April, 1.S02. 

He commanded the left wing under Wayne, and on the 20th ol August, 
1794, distinguished himself in the victory on the Miami. 1 1 is name appears on 
the Half-Pay Roll 



228 I'll! S OF I'lll' CINCINNATI. 

FRANCIS HANMOR 

Lieutenant $th A en I went. 

He was an at Newburgh en th^ 6th of July, 1775. 

Appointed Ensign in the 5th New York Regiment- ( - 1 wis Di Bois 
— on the j 1st of November, 1770. and subsequently promoted to be a Lieutenant 
in the s Mis name iears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ABRAHAM HARDENBERGH 

Lieutenant 1 tt \ 

Hied in 1 705. 

He was an Ass r Independence at Marbletown, Ulster County, 

in June. 1775. and served as an Ensign in the 1st New York Battalion in that 
year and until appointed Lieutenant of the First Company of the 1st New York 
Regiment on the .nst of November. 1770. With many other valuable officers 
he resigned in consequence of the precedence secured by Col net Du Bois for 
his own ol - ii those who had served in Canada. 

Appointed . \fuster-Master to the 1st Battalion of the New York 

es in the service of the United States in March. 17 s 

1 ossing records the following incident of his servii S 

A" the time of this expedition t hero wore about fort}' Oneida warriors at Fort Schuyler, 
gulars und< 1 v : , rgh, north- 

ward to attack ;: hie. This expedition was 

garrison having been apprised of their approach. It I that the employment of 

the Oni away th.it they could not notify their kinsman th( . the invasion, 

was the prim •.hern movement and in that it \< - i The Oneidas 

were really friendly to the patriots, but to their credit it was said, b) - inton in a letter to 

ivan, ' Their attachment tool admit of their being of any 

service whi inst their fellows.' " 

His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

JOSEPH HARDY 

Marines, Unit 

He was. on the 25th of June, 1770, appointed Ca a company in the 

Marine Corps of the United States Navy, with which he served until honorably 
discharged the sen ice at the end of the war. 

In 1700 he made an application to the New York State Society to be 
admitted to membership, and on the 4th of July of that year he was S ccted. 



THE Six 11,1V 01 THE CINCINNATI, 229 

He served from 1805 until 1810 as Secretary. His name appears on the Half- 
Pay Roll as Captain of New York. 

JOSEPH L. C. HARDY, his son, was in 1820 admitted in the succession, 
and died in November, 1853. 



SAMUEL HAY 

Lieutenant-Colonel (by brevet) Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment. 

Died December, 1803. 

He was commissioned on the 9th of January, 1776, a Captain in Colonel 
William Irvine's Pennsylvania R gim< nt. Promoted on the 31st of July, 1777, 
to be Major of the same, and Lieutenant-Colonel by /'revet) at the termination 
of the war, after five years' service. 

His residence was in New York; but upon removing, in 1796, to New 
Jersey, he met with the Society there. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 

PHILIP COURTLAND HAY f />' fid), his son, born in Newark in 

1793. succeeded him in the New Jersey State Society, having been admitted in 
1826, and elected its Secretary in 1829. He died in i860. 

NATHANIEL HENRY 

Lit utt mint 2d New York Regiment. 

He served in the Canadian expedition in 177'., and was appointed in head- 
quartei irders before Quebec, on the 15th of April oi that year, Second 
Lieutenant of the Second Company of Colonel John Nicho Canada Regi- 
ment. Colon, ■■/ Van Schaick, writi the 1st of January. 1777, to !■' ■ 
Vates, recommends him as follows : 

" I also recommend Lieutenant Nathaniel Henry, and have by the General's approbation 
appointed him Lieutenant, and advanced him money. He has already nearly enlisted his com- 
plement of men and is with them on service at Fort George, so that the Committee I hope will 
nol fail to appoint him." 

He was so commissioned on the 21st of November, 1776, probably ante- 
dated, for in 1777 he is recorded as a Second Lieutenant in Captain John H. 
Wendell's Company of Colonel Van Schaick's Regiment. His name appears on 
the Half-Pay Roll. 



mi so( u ry 01 i m cinc i\\ \ 1 1. 

BENJAMIN HERRING 

Ensign \st .W.v York Regiment. 

Died in January, i 

He was Ensign of the Second Compan) ist New York Regiment— CI 
Van Schaick's. liis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll.* 



ABEL HOLDEN 

tin 6/7/ Massachusetts Regiment. 

Born at Sudbury, Mass., in 1751. Died in New York City on the 2d of 
August, 1S1 s. 

11. was ,1 member oi the Massachusetts state Society, but was transferred 
to the New York Stale Society in 1809. 

Vppointed Adjutant of Nixon's Regiment on the 19th of April. 1775. He 
served at Bunker Hill, and was at the Siege of Boston, and commissioned 
Captain in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment— CM net Thomas Nixon's —on the 
1 st of January, 1777, serving with it through the war. His name appeal- on 
the Half-Tay Roll.f 



BAXTER HOWE 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Died in the service on the march to Yorktown, on the 3d of September, 
17S1, at Barrell's Ferry, James River, Va., while serving under Lafayette. 

He was appointed on the 1 st of January, 1776, Second Lieutenant 'in Captain 
Fay's Company of (' Jonathan Ward's Regiment of Connecticut 

Infantry -the Jist Continental Foot — and promoted to be its First Lieutenant 
on the 1 2th of July, 1776, Eben< ei Cleveland, promoted. 

Subsequently appointed a First Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment Continental 

• o\ Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — on the 1st of January. 1777. and promoted 

to be Captain-Lieutenant *<\ the same on the oth o\ November, 1778. and 

1 ight Artillei) (Sixth Company under Captain George Fleming. 



Hisremn t the S - . s w irs received aid 

from thi- fund 

* He was buried at th< - nse, and his widow lot many yens received aid from ihc hind. 



I III , 01 I III MM INN'A'I I. 231 

He served at the Siege of Boston, Harlem Heights, and in the battles of 
Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. 

BRIGHAM HO.WE, his son, was admitted by the New York State Society 
on the .(th of July, 1804, under the provision ol the Institution giving to the 
offspring of those officers who have died in tin service succession. 



BEZALEEL HOWE 

Lieutenant 1st New Hampshire Regiment. 

I >ud 3d of September, 1825. 

He was admitted in 1X00 by the New 1 ork State Sot iety. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant \n the 'Third Company of the isl New Hamp- 
shire Regimi nl -Colonel Joseph Cilley- and was recommissioned on the 8th of 
November, 1 770. 

Served with his regiment at Ticonderoga in July, 1777. at Bemis Heights, 
the storming ol Stony Point, the Battle oi Monmouth, and was in Sullivan's 
Expedition against the Indians in 1779. Afterwards, in 1793, he was under 
Wayne in the Miami Campaign 

GEORGE 1 OOPER HOWE, his eldest son, was admitted in his righl in 
and died on the (.th oi Di ber, 

GEORGE BEZALEEL HOWE, eldest son of the last, was admitted in 
1886. 



ISAAC HUBBHLL 

( aptain- Lieutenant and Paymast t Vew Y01 k /< tillery. 

He was appointed Second Lieutenant of the 3d Regimenl New York Conti- 
il Infantry— Colonel James Clinton's — isi of Septembei i; ; . and pro- 
moted to In First Lieutenant of the Sixth Company on the 15th of April, 177''. 
Transferred to Colonel John Nicholson's Regimen) New York Continental 
Infantry, In i.a. Quebec. Assigned as First Lieutenant to the 2d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — on the is) of January, 1777. 
Appointed Adjutant of his regiment on the 2d of April. 1779, and promoted to be 
Captain-Lieutenant on the 9th ol November, 1778, and Deputy Adjutant-General 



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and Sud-J - il the troops in the Middle Department, in General Orders 

from Headquarters at the Robinson House, dated 5th of September, 17S0. 

pointed Paymastei to his regiment on the 1st oi January, 17S1, and 
served with it until honorably discharged on the 3d of November. 1783. His 
name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



] AMIS MILKS HUGHES 

\fa > Regiment an imp. 

Born on the .-4th of March, 175". Hud on the 18th of December, 18 \ 

He was the second son of Colonel Hugh Hughes,* whose eldest son Peter, 
was an .7:. \ ild's Stillwater in 1777. 

Appointed 5 ant in the 1st New York Regiment Continental 

Infantry — McDougall's — on the 22d oi July. 1775. and commissioned to be 
: the Third Company of the same, dated the -"4th oi Feb- 
ruary. 177(1. 

When the sixteen additional Regiments to the Continental Line were 
ordered by Congress, in 1777. he was appointed a Captain in t' William 



1 [ugh Hugl ed from the Hughes family of Wales, a branch of which settled 

early in Pennsylvania, lie was born in 1727 and died on the 15th of March, 1S02. He came to 
New York in 1705, and being a man of excellent education, but in moderate circumstances, gave 
instruction in the consistory room of the old Huguenot Church. " du Saintc Esprit," which stood 
then in Tine Street. n< N His ardent patriotism associated him, in 1707, with other 

early movers as a " S ■ . and led to his appointment by the Provisional Convention 

of this St. ue. on the 16th of Febnian . ' s s after as 

Continental In this capacity, when the greater portion of the 

army were cut off alter the defeat on bone Island, he materially contributed to their rescue by 
collecting all the available boats around Manhattan Island, and transporting them over on the 
ensuing night. 

["he Stat. describes the hardship of this haslj action in the complaint of Stephen 

Hogebc* p "Halifax.' to the Convention at Fishkill, on the 2d of 

February of the next \ 

M - >Sloop back 

x . \ with her to Claverack, but w.i* prevented fn 

. v pver, with the S Island Ferry, 

where she was so the unfortunate retreat on tin 

of safety quitted her. That thi - I up with 

stores to the army, thro Sound, to Kingsbridge, where she was ntinenta] 

army, until the rctre.it from the Island, when she fell into the hands ol the enemy." 

Heath, at the ■Highlands." in General Orders, returned " hearty thanks for his 

attention and discharge ol the several duties of his office while in service under innumerable 

embarrassments," hich was laying the chain cable across the Hudson River between 

the Highlands, in February, 177s. and placing obstructions in the ri\er near West Point, under 

superintendence of Captain fhomas Machin, ot the 3d New York Regiment, 



I III 01 II rV "i i hi i INCINNATl. 233 

Malcom's, and was an Aide to General Gates at the end of the 
Campaign. 

The following letter from Headquarters, Saratoga, dated 15th of Octol 
1777, addressed to Mrs. Charity Hughes, his mother, at West Windsor, I 
r . 11 1 1 1 1 1 ting: 

11 ored Mothei I have just time to inform you of the inexpressible pleasure I shall 
have ol . General Burgoyne and his Army march out of his Entrenchments 

to-morrow morning and surrei elf and Army prisoners of war. fie Capitulated this day, 

how changed the scene, a few weeks ago all was gloomy and immering oi 

twilight, but now the cloud i and the rays of conquest beams high in this Department. 

The on i ion ol his precipitati retreat was this, On the 7th inst about 

noon our Army wa alarmed thai the enemy was advancing on our lines. After making the 
■ in. if our troops, our COUl informed us that thi -raging party 

and meant no i which the General ordered threi regimen Hack them, which they 

did, when a very heavy fin commi need both sidi re-inforced with equal avidity but the at 

our men and determination t nqui I fori ed the liritish troops to give way and pursued them in 

their V. Camp oi their Hying Army, General Burgoym I amp, the Q 
Master General, tin- Commanding Officers of their Artillery and Grenadiers, a Hi ian ( olonel 
with many oil). 1 Officers and about two hundred privati with eight brass pi I Artillery. 

" 1 nfortunately in the action of the day. th< bravi and gallant General Arnold had his leg 
fractured by a musket ball. I hi Em my the same night retired to their intrenched Camp on 
their left. 

il Lincoln's Division being nearest them, he unfortunately n -connoitering n 
the like accident, but they are both in a fair way of doing well, tho' the) are much wanting in 
this Army. 

"< onsidei the stroke to the i'.ritish Nation, will they not I ivinced that Americans 

fighting for their freedom are invincible and that the longer thi A u - ontinues, we make furthi r 

I ! iii military disciplin, that added to our determined n "i to repel . 

invasion of our rights will make us formidable to our foi 

■' \V' paj our next attention to Mr. Clinton on thi river, should he not walk off in time — 

Hi to him than has to his friend Burgoyi 
" I have not time to say more, what more would you have, how are the mighty I 

1 e to sisters Sally, Chany, Susy, Ruthy, Caty. God love you 

all. Compliments to all friends. I remain dear Mother your affectionat 

"JAMES M. IP '-in 
" Brother Peter is here and di ii nembered to you." 

Leaving the service- he practiced law in New York, senl to the Assembly in 
1795, and was Secretary of this Stati in 179;,, taking an active part in 

the commemorative 1 1 n monies al w ashington's death. 

He married Mary, the daughter ol Captain John Bailey, and died leaving 
two daughti 1 ;, who died unmarried. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll 

DIXON GEDNE1 III GHES, great-grandson of his brother, Captain 
Peter Hughes, was admitted as his collateral repn entati 1 in 1875, 



234 nil SOCIETY OF Till CINCINN \ I I. 

EPHRAIM HUNT 

Lieutenant 4th Massachusetts Regiment. 

Born at Watertown, Mass.. on the 5th of November, 1758. Died at Albany 
on the 1 <>th of October. 1S05. 

He was a descendant of Enoch Hunt, one of the original Massachusetts 
settlers of We) mouth, and died, leaving a « idow, Catharine, and three children, 
in Albany, \. V* 

Commissioned Lieutenant of the 9th Massachusetts Regiment — Colonel 
Henry Jackson — on the 9th of August, 1781. On the subsequent reduction of 
the army, 30th of October, 1782, it became the 4th Regiment, and he served 
with it to the close of the war. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts State Society, and in 
1785, residing in this State, affiliated with the New York 5i et) and signed 
its roll. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

THOMAS HUNT 

Lieutenant 4th New York Regiment. 

Died in December, 170", in Charleston, S. C.f 

He was the eldest son of Jesse Hunt, the Sheriff of Westchester County, 
N. Y., under the Crown, and a descendant ot Thomas Hunt, of Shrewsbury, 
England, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1656, who emigrated to America, and 

lined a patent for the "Grove Farm" from the first English Colonial 
Governor, Richard Nicolls, dated the 4th of December, 1667, and at his 
decease willed to his grandson one hundred acres on the " Great Planting 
Neck." now known as Hunt's Point, X. Y. City. He resided on Hunter's 
Island, at Pelham, W estchester County, X. Y.. and enlisted from New Rochelle. 

Commissioned Lieutenant in the 4th New York Regiment — Colonel Henry 
11. Livingston's— he saw much service, including the Canada Campaign. His 
commission is dated the 9th of November, 1777, but his name appears, a year 
earlier, on a list oi ol the four New York Battalions, now in the office 

of the Secretarj of Mao. as a - s ond Lieutenant of the Seventh Company of 
the same, on the 21st of November, 1770. anil again, in 1777, he is referred to 
as holding that rank in 1775. This error is explained by a rank roll of his 
regiment, adjusted under an order from Headquarters. Morristown, dated 20th 

* He and his widow received aid from the fund. 

t Removing to Charleston he met with the South 1. . .1 at his wife's request the New 

Society paid her fifty dollars on the 13th of December, 1796, to defray her expens him. 



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of May, 1777, noting as to him and two other Second Lieutenants, " no former 
Continental commission, therefor left as arranged bj Convention." His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

CHRISTOPHER HUTTON 

Lieutenant and Adjutant 2d New York Regiment. 

The following sketch furnished l>y the RtvevendVl. S. 1 1 ut ton. 

Born in New York City on the 26th of April, 1756. Died on the 15th of 
February, 1843. 

At the age Of twenty lie enlisted as a volunteer, and was appointed Ensign 
in the 3d New York Regiment on the 21st of November, 1 7 7 r> • Promoted to 
he' Lieutenant in the same on the 6th of February, 1779. Transferred to the 
2d New York Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt — and served as its Adjutant. 
lie also served in the Northern Department attached to General Clinton's 
Division, and at Fort Schuyler volunteered, going through the enemy's lines 
to solicit aid from Genera/ Schuyler. 

He, at the close of the war, with his brother. Captain Timothy Mutton (who 
also had served as an Adjutant), settled on the Hudson River, about 
miles above Albany, where they formed a partnership, erected a large ware- 
house, and then became the leading dealers and shippers of grain and pr< 
of that section of the State. Shortly afterwards, the residents assembling to 
determine some name for the growing settlement, uni onscious that it might in 
time become a city, he suggested that it be named " Troy," and as there were 
two hills, that the one on the north be called " Mount Olympus," and that on 
the south " Mount Ida." This was approved and adopted, and ever since have 
been retained. 

Being very highly esteemed by his fellow citizens, in 1794 he was elected 
one of its original trustees, and subsequently also ol its library, a director in 
the first bank, and from there elected a member of the Fee'-]. nine, lie was 
remarkable for his frankness, sturdy honesty and patriotic devotion; tall and 
finely proportioned, and carried himself with military 5, Lieutenant- 

Colonel Marinus Willetl ; d him with his sword. He died much respi 

leasing no issue. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

MANCI1 S SMEDES HUTTON {Reverend), his nephew and eldest so,, 
of his brother, Captain Timothy Hutton, was admitted in 1856. He was the 
Chaplain of thi . until his decease in 1880. 

MANCIUS HOLMES HUTTON {Rei<erend),sox\ ol the last, was admitted 
in 1881, and chosen Chaplain in his father's place. 



230 1111 SOC1E IV OF I 111 CINCINNATI, 

A B R A H A M H Y A TT 

tenant 4th New York Regiment, 

He signed .is an Ass for Liberty in Beekman Precinct, Dutchess 

County, in 1775. In 1770110 appears as Second /. tenant of the Minute Men 
oi Co/one/ Jacobus Swart wout's Regiment in i- James Clinton's Brigade, 

and as recommended by him for the Standing Army. 

Appointed -V ant of the Eighth Con the 4th New York 

Regiment 1 Henry B. Livingston's — on the 5 th ol November, 1776, and 

arranged, with that rank, on the _ 1 -t of that month, by the Committee of the 
Convention, lit- was one of the two officers mentioned in the foregoing notice 
eutenant Hunt. Promoted I November, 1777. His 

name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

THOMAS FREDERICK JACKSON 

He was commissioned Cornet in the 2d Regiment Continental Light Dra- 
goons 1 I lisha Sheldon's- on the 23d of November, 1778, and promoted 

to be in the same on the 15th oi November, 1770. ami Regimental 

anion the iSth oi December, 1770. 

IK- was an - in 17S1 to I/..- 1 William Alexander 

Lord Stirling. 

Honorably d ged the service, with his regiment, on the 3d oi Novem- 

ber, 17S3. 

He resided in Now York City in 1704. His name appears on the Half-Pa) 
Roll as from Connecticut. 

CORNELIUS T. [ANSEN 

■ \ legiment. 

He was a resident of Ulster County. Appointed .V. ■ •' in the 

2d Regiment New York Continental [nfantrj C Van Schaick's on the 

»Sth of June, 1775. and on the 30th of the same month First Lieu tenant in the 
Si vth Company of the .;>! or lister Regiment— Co/onei lames Clinton. 

Lewis On Bois, the Captain oi the Fifth Company, on the 26th of June, 
1770. was promoted by Congress to the command oi nent, which was the 

cause of much confusion and dissatisfaction of himself and his officers. Jansen 



. OJ rHE CINCINNA'J I. 237 

appears to have served in it, commissioned a a Captain, in command of its 
Eighth Company, until the -'ist of November, 1776. From that date, with the 

rank, he was ti fain to the |d Regiment — then Colonel Gan 1 

voort's -and subsequently to the tst New York Regiment — Colonel Van 
with uIim h I11 have served until the end ol tin; war. 

His name appears on the Hall Pay Roll. 



I A M ES JOHN STO N 

Lieutenant zd New York Ri intent. 

He enlisted in the 5th New York Regiment, as Sergeant Major on the 28th 
of December, 1770, ami was commissioned Ensign on the 25th of June, 1777; 
Quartermaslei 23d of December, 1779; Adjutant 14th ol fuly following ; and 
after I olidation, Lieutenant of the Eighth Company of the 2d New 

York Regiment- Colonel Van Cortlandt's and vith it to the end of thi 

war. Hi ' 1 . 1 j r 1 ■ appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

R () B E R T J () II NTS TON 

Physician ana on, General Hospital. 

By resolution of Congress he was sent to the Southern Department on duty 
in South ( larolina as a PA) /■ ian in the ( ieneral Hospital. 

He made two voyages to China, in after life, recording meteorological 
observations, having married Eleanor Pawling, but died without leaving issue. 
His name- appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JOHN KEESE 

/ tant Deputy Quarterma /< 1 

Born il Flu hing, L. I., in 1755. Died at Philadelphia in June, 1809. 

He was the only son of William Kees< and Mary Bowne, of Flushing, L. I., 
where he was reared in the principles of the 5ocief ol Friends, but which he 
abandoned and later in life b Presbyterian. 

\t the comm il of the Revolution he was studying law in New Yrok 

with Lindley Murray, thi grammarian, but subsequently enlisted ai reded 

tting a position in the servici as I istant Deputy-Quarterma 



_• ;S I in SOI 11 IN OF 1 111- CIKCINNA II. 

While stationed at Fishkill he married Rhoda Appleby, by whom he had a 
family of children. After peace was declared he came to New York 
and began practicing law. 

Admitted by the New York State Society in [Soo to membership, and in 
i8oj was elected Assistant rreasurer. 

His remains repost in Woodlawn Cemetery, V V. City. His name appears 
on the Hall Pay Roll. 

Wl! 1 1 \M REESE, his eldesl son, was admitted in tSio, and having 
married a daughter of the i William Linn, he died in March, 1819, 

leaving two sons i William 1 inn* and John. 

WILLIAM LINN REESE, his great grandson, was admitted in 1877. Ik- 
was the eldest surviving son ^i John Re- 



DANIEL KEMPER 

Born at New Brunswick, N. J., in 17-10. Pied there on the 6th of August, 

He with his father removed to New York City in 1750. He was descended 
from ].u\A^ Kemper, of Bacharack, a fortified town on the Rhine, and who 
came to this country in 1741. 

The following sketch of his life is taken from his own manuscript, now in 

the m of the family : 

" 1 , ntn .u the earliest commencement of the Revolution in 

lasper's Scol e, which engaged ti six months. 

1 was .u tin \\ hite Plains, and our army then crossed the North River into V « 

\ 
" While 1 eave to move my famih N. J where I had 

\ \ Vw.uk 1 removed m\ wife and three children without 

I be removed for want of teams. The Hessians entered 
eth town b> lay the next morning aftei tnd although my father, 

Jacob K • would not allow him to take anything out ol the house. 

s on that occasion, at the lowest estimate, could not have been less than five thousand 
derable stoi s and .1 house well furnished. 1 then pun 

small i> ' . \ J., for my family, and there they remained until the close of the 

'.ion. 
" Vftei m\ -i\ months service ot enlistment had expired 1 did duty on the lines .is .1 
volunteer, and was at tinu-s with Gtn 1/ Maxwell fowards S was brought to 



x .. the only surviving son of thi v ' 1 lliam linn Keese, of 

New H ■ membership in 1S60, but 1 5 name to the 

Institution, without issue. 



I III OCIETY Ol I III \ I I. 2.39 

I /own, am] myself and thro 

the place. 
Inforn ;round a mile 

below, laden with a valuable i 
/ Dayton, and pro 

mall knoll, an. I taking a flaj '-' ,1,,: 

ender. He was Dollard, having a Captain, Lieuti 

i Major, afti tation, 

i boarl the vessel, when he delivered i ord. The 

women were immei nt off under guard. I then went with the Major and 

ted him to General Dayton, with 
desiring me to keep it as a trophy, arid • it in my possession." 

Subsequentl) the position of 1> ( fhicr-Gei and was 

stationed in New York. 

At the close of the war, like many otl rs, he was nearly destitt 

with a lart;e family, but after the adoption of the Constitution, was given in 
1792, an appointment in the New York Custom House, which position he- 
retained for fourteen years. 

II- was admitted by th .• New York State Society in 1802. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

SAM1 I.I. I' 1. 1. 1 KEMPER, Ins grandson ;. I 

David Jackson Kemper, of Wisconsin, was elected a member of this 
the 4th of July, 1882, but has not yet signed the Institution. 



fACOB KEMPER 

Cof tenant :,/ Artiller . M 

Born at V J. Died in 1800. 

He was of Daniel Kemp 

ptember, 177s, at Brooklyn, in the Kings Count;. 
Adolph Waldron — Minute Men for sei 

n of the 1st R inental Infantry — 

—on the 1st of April, 1770. 
At Ticonderoga, on the 9th of November, 1776, hi 

nail of 1 ' Corps of Artillery John 

,/ John U pany. P to be 

'in Li at tenant 'in the 5th of Novi 
Honorably discharged th with his ■ the 3d ol 

ber, 1 

He married an! t Elizabethtown, N.J. Was a brother-in-la 

rod of War, G n ral J Morton, who married his sister, Maria 



■ 1 I'HE SOCIETY Ol rHE CINCINNATI, 

Sophia Kemper. Died, leaving one son, who went to South America, and one 
daughter, Sarah [Mrs. Abijah Ferguson), His name appears on the Half- 
Pa) Roll. 

JOHN LAMB 

Vac York A i 

Born in \r» Vork on the isl of January, 1735. Died there on the 31st of 
May, 1S00. 

He followed Ins father's occupation, an optician and instrument maker, and 
when the Sens of Liberty met in opposition to the encroachments of the 
Ministry, he united with them, and being a clever writer and fluent speaker, 
~-''.<n became prominent. 

\ ipointed on the 30th of Juno, 17 1 tin ol the New Vork Provincial 

Artillery Company, which was ordered to Canada, and arrived at the camp 

near St. Johns, on the 20th of September, participating in the siege and capture 

of that pi 

In the desperate assault before Quebec, on the ,;ist ol December, he was 

struck on the left cheek by a fragment ol a grape shot, carrying away pan ol 

the bone, and was, with others, taken prisoner anil carried to a convent used as 

an hospital. 

The minutes of the State Committee ol Safety, in Vpril, 177c, record the 

following : 

" One of Lamb's men escaped, wen! into the Bombproof in the yard, jumped over the wall 
and ovei ' 1 tywall. Said he had heard ol Lamb, that he had lost his left ey< well otlv > 
1 troops there Snow • he came away." 

While a pus, hum-, on the oth of January, 1776, he was promoted by 
the Continental Congress to the command, with the rank of Ma , of the 
artillery in the Northern Department, a reward for his activity and spirited 
luct. 

Having been, on the 3d of August, 177c paroled by Si/ Guy Carleton, he 
arrived in a cartel at Elizabethtown, N. I., on the 20th ol September, .\\\<\ was 
soon afterward exchanged, as i,\: ol Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment ol 
Artilli 1 

On the 1st in' January, 177", he was appointed by Washington, under the 
authority of Congress on the -'7th of December, 177". ( ol the 2d Regi 

ment Continental Corps of Artillery, under General Knox, 

In the action at Campo Hill, 2Sth of April, 1777, he was again struck bj 
a grape-shot and severely wounded. On the 6th of March, 1770, he was 
appointed S of He commanded Ins regiment at the Siege 



I III OCIETV OP THE CINC! IT!, • I ' 

ol \ or! town, whi n thi i traordinarj kill and a< i tirai ■> oi thi Ami i i< an 
.11 1 illi i . surprised thi French allii 

'in thi |oth ol September, 1783, h< iva appointed Sri adiet General \ 
nd on thi ;d of November, 1 78 ;, iva honorablj disi hai gi 'I the 

ei 1 il h iii reg 1 

1 1, v. electi d, in 1 78 |. a mi mbi 1 ol the New Vorl 1 1 gi lature, and 
appointed bj il I ollectoi ol Cu tomi foi the Porl ol New Vork, and retained 
thii position unl il his di al h, 1 1 1 nami appeal on tin Hall Paj Roll, 

ANTHONY LAMB, his only son va admitted in 1 tnd died on the 

1 ;ili ol Maj . 1 1 1 . 1 ■. ing been elected bj thi ociel I'rea 11 

Vici Pn idenl in 1 1 1 and Pn idenl in 1 : 1 

I ' > 1 1 . LAMB, eldesl son ol thi last, was ad mitted in 1857, and died .,1 

LiAMH On WwlDMlUjr, Oct, 30, 1889, VTOLMTA, 

wi,ii,w ol 1. ,111. Auu.oiiy l..iini,, in urn UVili yr»r 
,,1 Ol , utfiv 

1 noi ' »' «'■' - 1' 'i vviii ini beta h in 1 in'' 

, 01 Hutilr.l 
N„v •/. hi III ,.'< In' k 



New Haven on thi t6th of Octobei 



GARRET LANSING 

/ 11 in 1 .1 Ai W 1 <'i I '■'< ■■nil, nl 

Appointed Ensi no\ thi |d New Vorl Regiment Colonel G 

on the 6th oi February, 1779 ; and lubsequently, undei thi consolidation ol 

lew Vork Line, wa on thi 1 1 ol fanuary, 1781, transferred to the Fifth 

1 ompany of thi 11 '■■ ■■■ V"orl Ri gimi nl < 'olonel Van 1 

1 iry, 17K2. 

Willi, mi F, Lansing, of Littli I all , N, Y., writes the follow 

" I have for thi pa ' ten real , from timi to time, | thered what facta I could h 

thi ubji ct ol ',' .in inquiry, I hi ' < . • . ' He wad born 

in Albany on thi tith of Deccmbei [761 nnette, thi daughtei of Colonel Edward 

Antill, and died Orinl ?th ol May, 1831. Hi 

Ccrrit 1 1 .hi ing, i 1 ncelloi H I in the 

; l 1 .,,,, the bi he clone of tl 

Wai pn ■ • hi hi 11 d -ii Vorkto I led the ' 1 orlorn 

I I.,],. .. Mi 11' 11. nil " 

II -I appei id' Hall Paj Roll Garret G. Lansing, Lieutenant, 

■ h Vork. 

I'M HARD RAY LANSING, his eldi st son, wa ed in 1 and 

died en the 29th ol Si pti mber, 1855. 

EDWARD ANTILL LANSING, eldesl on of last, was admitted in 1856, 
.•mil died on tin 1 il li nl Jum , 1 68, al Di troil 

.... ■ ■ ■ 



• i • THE SOCIK I \ OF 1111 I IN( INN \ II. 

JOHN LAURANCE 

Jua I 

Bom at Cornwall, England, in 1750. Died in New V'ork on the litli ol 
Nove nl ier, 1S10. 

He canv to New York in 1 707. .uu I was admitted to the bar in 177--. 

Appointed 5 Lieutenant ol the 4th Regiment New York Continental 

[nfantry I fames Holmes' en the 1st ol August, 1775. 

to his father-in-law, 1 McDougall, and in 1777 he was on the stall ol 

\\ ashington, 

\i the trial I Andre he was the /.. ■•/«■. 

In 1783, resuming his profession, the practice of the law at the Bar oi 
New York, he became a Member of Congress ami also of the Board ol 
Regents of tin- I niversity; a trustee ol Columbia College; a State Senator in 
1 7 So. and again a Member of Congress in 17S9 1793 ; Judge oi the United 
States District Courl ol New V'ork, 1704-1701'. ami United St ites Senatoi 
from Vu Vork, 1 -o,> [800, presiding in 179S. 

Drake speaks of him as follows : 

" lie was a zealous and able defender of the administration of Washington. Upon the 
questions of neutrality, currency, finance and especiall) the commercial interests ol the country, 
lie evinced great comprehensiveness and foresight." 

His name appears on the Half-Pa} Roll as J 1 teral. 



[ONATH \\ LAWRENCE 

Died on the .-7th of April, iSo2. 

He appears to have been elected at Jamaica, on the 22d of May, 1775, a 
delegate iron- Queens County in the Provincial Congress, and on the 26th as 
signing its association and declaration of rights. On the 15th of December 
following he, with John Grennell, Samuel Bayard and William Bed low (com- 
mittee), were directed to provide barracks ami subsistence for one thousand 
men on the Hudson River; ami on the olh oi May, 1 777. lie was appointed 
one of the commissioners to superintend the manufacture oi gun Hints, sulphur, 
lead and salt, and 

" thai they have power u> expend upon such manufactures .1 Sum not exceeding three 
thousand Pounds, ami to draw upon the Treasury of iliis State lor tli.it Sum; and that they be 
further allowed the Sum of fifty Pounds each, tor the trouble and expense in the sen-ice aforesaid, 



I III "M ["HE CINCINNATI. 2 I ; 

" Resolved, Thai the Sinn ol fort) Shillings be allowed is a Bountj foi i ■< hundred 
weight of good lead madi from tl within this State by any privati idventurer on or befori 

thi i ' ol Ma) i/, rhal th< Sum ol sixteen Shillings bi allowed a a Bountj I 

hundn d tvi ighl ol : I ! ulphui to manufactured as al laid within thi tate, befon thi aid 

is! "l Ma) 1778, 'I hal the S of ten Shillings bi allowetl foi 1 ai h Bu bi 1 ol : 1 lal 

factured a 1] lid within this State from Salt Springs 01 Mi >r befori thi first day oi 

Deceml I And thai the Sum ol two Shilling I" allowed I wj hundred good nun 

Hints, made within thi Stati on 01 befori the first day of May 1778, and that the Said - eral 

1 1 be paid a folio , to wil The party claiming thi aid bountj hall make ] f befon 

one of the Said C01 onci , that hi 1 entitled to Such Bounty, and tl pon uch C01 

'join 1 Shall make a Certificati in hi favor ol his being entitled to thi Bounty, which Shall bi 1 

'. 11 rani to thi Tn 1 urei foi paying thi i 

" Resolved, That this State have thi pri emption of the Several irticli il ncntioned 

upon whii I. -.in lil: , hall b given 1 afori aid." 

'I In Committei oi New Windsor Precinct, on thi ;ist oi May, 1776, reports 

to the Provim ial ( 'ongress as follows : 

" 1 1 i' 1 ■ u pain to find an) Pi 1 01 nteracting the ordi 1 ol I ongn , and then goi 

on to reporl that a relative ol ' 'optain [onathan I awn nee, who is 1 Commi ioncr of Co 

hi Fort Constitution, and hi Son, a clerk there, both in thi pay of thi Conl * * * ear] 

in this Spring Settled in the Prei incl and opened a Shop here, then Knowlingly, trar) to the 

■ I 1 ;■! ' ha retailed Bi hea tea at 8 Shillings 1 >' 1 lb and to evadi the Ri olvi in thai 

n peel pretend to ell ti 1 il 6 Shilling: pei Hi bul will nol lei the purcha ei havi thi h 
n 1 1 1' ; ii' taki 1 papei bag to put it in, at 2 Shilling , and in proportion foi a greatei 01 li 

quantity ftp 1 warmly to Show that this has disgusted thi nhabitanl a they coi 

il : l Kind of insult to have thai Fortn made an Asylum for tl I< herb, and the illegal 

in ndi rs of it." 

He married, first, Janette Neal, ol Burlington, N. J., by whom he had 
several children. His name appears on the Hall Pay Roll. 

CHARLES C. LAWRENCE, his eldesl son, wa admitted in r825, and 
died in 1854. 



NATHANIEL LAWRENCE 

Lieutenant 2d North Carolina Regiment. 

His name appears on the roll ol members ol the New Yml-. Stati lociel 
returned to the General Society in May, 1788, a 1 membei ol thi North 
( Carolina State S01 iety. 

Appointed Ensign in the 2d North Carolina Regiment Colonel John Patten 
mi tin 1 1 1 1 uf September, 1778, and subsequently promoted to be a Lieutenant 
in tin 

II. or one of his nami appeal in thi records as an Associate) foi liberl 
Orange Town, Orangi County, on the 17th of July, 1775, and in th< 1 

- . . mt p ■ - 1 



244 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

to have been attached to the armed schooner " General Putnam,'" and mak- 
ing a complaint against her captain (Cregier) for inefficiency and violence, 
and asking that he be cashiered. On the 5th of September of the same year 
he also appears as a member of a military company in West Farms. Westchester 
County. X. V. Whether these are or either of them the officer in question is 
uncertain. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



GEORGE LEAYCRAFT 

Lieutenant -V 

Born in New York City. Died there in April, iSi 1. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — 
Iamb's — on the 1st of January. 1777. Assigned from Captain Andrew 
Moodie's to Captain Gershom Mott's company on the :3d of November. 
Promoted to be First Lieutenant of the same on the 21st of August. 
Honorably discharged, with his regiment, on the 3d of November. 1783. 

His witlow received aid from the fund. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 



WILLIAM LEAYCRAFT 

Lieulenat York Artil 

Born on the 20th of October. 1757. at Demerara. Died on the 7th of June, 
1827. 

Appointed Lieutenant in the 2d Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel 
Lamb's — on the 28th of June. 1781. and assigned to Captain Savage's com- 
pany. Honorably discharged the service, with his regiment, on the 3d of 
November. 17 S3. 

He married Eleanor, daughter of Jacobus Bogert, and left two sons and 
two daughters. His name appears on the Halt- Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM HENDERSON LEAYCRAFT, his second son, was admitted 
in 1827, his elder brother, Yiner Leaycraft, having died in the service in the 
war of 1S12, at Sacket's Harbor, leaving issue only a daughter, who. in 
married the Portuguese wine merchant Paul Joachim Figueira. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 245 

BENJAMIN LEDYARD 

Major \st New York Regiment, 

The following sketch is compiled from John Austin Steven's paper. 

Born March 5th, 1753, at Groton, Conn. Died November 9th, 1803, at 
Aurora, N. Y. 

He was the son of Youngs Ledyard, and was brought up in the family of 
his grandfather, John Ledyard, at Hartford, with his brother Isaac and his 
cousin John, later known as "the Traveler." Afterwards he was in the 
store of Peter Vandervoort, of New York, who was the husband of his aunt, 
Sarah Ledyard. Mr. Vandervoort was engaged in the hardware business and 
as an importer of this class of merchandise before the Revolution, and his 
nephew had been admitted to partnership about that time. 

On the outbreak of hostilities, Benjamin Ledyard — although recently mar- 
ried to Catharine, daughter of Samuel Forman, of Middletown, l'enn., on the - ■ 
22d of January, 1775 — at once enlisted, and raised a company, which, accord- 
ing to a tradition in the family, was known as the "Hairy Caps." They 
were enrolled in the 1st Regiment New York Continental Infantry — Colonel 
Alexander McDougall commanding — in which Benjamin Ledyard was com- 
missioned Captain on the 2Sth of June, 1775. McDougall's regiment went to 
Quebec in the Winter, but apparently Captain Ledyard was left behind, as he 
appears issuing warrants to a recruiting officer of the Third Company New 
York Continentals in February, 1776. In the arrangement of the New York 
Line, by a Committee of the New York Convention, November 21st, 1776, 
he was promoted to Major, Henry B. Livingston being made Colonel in the 
place of McDougall, who was already serving as Brigadier-General. General 
McDougall wrote to the Committee, recommending Ledyard's promotion as the 
set ond in the regiment, and "the man the corps have their eye on for major," 
and added he thought him by far the best qualified for it. There seemed to 
have been some uncertainty about his acceptance, probably on account of his 
health, which, never strong, soon broke down entirely. H6 was engaged at 
the battle of White Plains in 1776. He was at the Battle of Monmouth 
either with his command or while at home on a furlough, his regiment being 
stationed at West Point with the forces posted there for the protection of the 
Hudson Highlands. At Monmouth his horse was shot under him. There is .1 
tradition that after this battle a British armed vessel, driven ashore, was 
captured by the militia, and that Majoi Ledyard prepared the articles "i 
capitulation, parolling the officers. His health failing him, he found himself 
unable to perform field duty, aiul on the 26th of March, 1779, as appears from 



246 I HI SOCIETY OF 1 HI CIN< INN \ II. 

the petition of his son for his father's share oi the lands allotted Revolutionary 
soldiers, he resigned his commission and withdrew from active service. He 
continued, however, to render effectual assistance as a volunteer with the 
militia m eases oi invasion until the elose oi the war. 

The army was in sore need of salt, ami the Government urged its manu- 
facture. Major Ledyard became superintendent oi a company engaged in this 
business at Barnegat. 

At the peace he returned to New York, and renewed his commercial pur- 
suits, forming a partnership with Colonel Walker, the Aide of Baron Steuben. 
This partnership was dissolved April 20th. 1785, after which he continued his 
mercantile pursuits with his brother. Dr. [saac ledyard. for a time. Me 
finally withdrew to Middletown and opened a country store. In 170,; the 
military bounty lands of New York were allotted in Onondaga County, and 
1 edyard, receiving the appointment of the Clerk of the County, removed 
to the village of Aurora, and there established his office and built a cottage, in 
which lie resided with his family, ami which was standing in 1843. Here he 
was visited by his fellow soldiers, some of whom, among others Aaron Burr, 
bought lands in the neighborhood. The fever for speculation in western 
lands was high at the close of the last century, and the fertile valleys of New 
York were the favorite field. The town was hrst named Scipio, but later was 
divided. The new town set aside embraced the village oi Aurora, in which he 
hail his home, and received the name of I edyard in his honor. 

By his first wife. Catharine Forman, he had ten children. 

BENJAMIN LEDYARD, his eldest son. was admitted in 1804, elected 
Secretary in 1S10, and died in New York on the 26th of October. [S12, having 
married Susan 1'.. the daughter of Colonel Henry Brockholst Livingston, on the 
3d of April, 1811. 

HENRY LEDYARD, only son of the last, was elected to membership in 
his grandfather's right in 1852. He died in rSSo at Paris, having married 
Matilda, the daughter of General Lewis Cass. 

HENRY BROCKHOLST 1.1'1'N VRD, eldest son oi the last, was admitted 
in 1882. 

ISAAC LEDYARD 

Surgeon's Mate. 

Horn at Groton, Conn., on the 5th of November. 1754. Hied on Stateu 
Island. N. V., on the 28th of August. 1S03. 



I III SOI II. I V 01 I III. < INCINNA I I. 247 

He was the youngest brother of Majoi Benjamin Ledyard. Came to New 
York and studied medicine with Dr. John Hard. 

Appointed Surgeon's Male of the ist New York Continental Infantry — 
Colonel Mi Dougall l <: commission dated 20th of March, 1776, and subse- 
quently assigned as Assistant Medical Purveyor at Fishkill, X. V., and it is 
stated that he served as Hospital Surgeon to the close of the war. 

He resided at the house of Colonel Roger Morris, on the Harlem River, 
1 successively was used as headquarters by both armies. On the 13th of 
March, 17S5. he married Ann McArthur, and immediately resumed the 
practice of his profession in New Vork City. 

In 1705 he removed to a farm of two hundred acres near Newtown, I.. I., 
which was carefully cultivated, having extensive outbuildings and large herds 
of cattle. There he had Governor De Witt Clinton for a neighbor, and attended 
him in his duel in August, 1799, in which he wounded his adversary, John 
Swartwout. He was a man of literary ability, a writer in the heated contro- 
versy of that period in opposition to the Federal Party ; a Presidential Elector 
in 1800, casting his vote for Jefferson. At the time of his death he was serving 
as Health Officer of tin- Port of New York at Staten Island. 

Thompson, the historian of Long Island, speaks of him : 

"II- ntleman of polished manners, affable ami of wonderful conversational powers. 

His reading was expressive, his observations acute, and his information on most subjects large 

and accurate. Thi di ath "I such a man was not only a £reat calamity to his family but to the 
public." 

He was admitted by tin- New Vork State Society in 1786. His n 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



ABRAHAM LEGGETT 

Lieutenant $th New York Regiment. 

Born on the 3d of January, 1754, at West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 
In* <] on the [6th of January, 1842. 

He a,:- the oreat grandson of Gabriel Leggett, who came from Essex 
County, England, in 1661, and acquired a large estate on "Great Planting 
Neck," since known as " Leggett's Point," and whose son became Mayor of 
the Borough of Westchester in 1734. In a petition to the Provincial I 
on the 5th of September, 1775, he asked with others for a separate distrii I foi 
the militia of the Manor of Fordham and West Farms, claiming that the 
rendezvous at the Borou h Town of Westchester was too remote. On the 
25th of October he was chosen, with Thomas Hunt, the Committee of Inspec- 



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I III m II I \ hi I III CINCINNATI 



tion ,ii the election ol the officers ol this new company, and subsequent!) .1 
member of the County Committee, 

In |u 1 1 i, he entered .1 volunteei corps thai was formed at Poughkeepsie 
uihK'i 1 Bernardus Swartwout, and joined the arm) on I ong I >land the 

I i tei the Wattle ol Flatbush. His compan) was .11 first on the left, but 
aftei wai v Is the 1 eai guai d. 

lli- took part in the engagements at Harlem Heights and White Plains, and 

shared in the sufferings of the army in the Winter ol 1777 in New lersey, In 

, v lie received .1 commission in the standing arm) unexpected but 

\ accepted. He was appointed - in the ;th New Vork Regiment 

, 1 >i; Hois ranking from the nsl ol November, 1776, serving in the 

Seventh Company, .mil w is ifti rward promoted in /., 1 ol the same. 

Employed as a recruiting officer .11 Bedford, Wi tchestei County, he was 
ordered to Fori VI 1 ry, where he became .1 prisonei ol war, when il was 

taken, and suffered great privations and cruelties, until paroled on Long Island. 
In iS;S In- was chosen the Vice President ol this Society. 
r.\ Ins first wife, Rebecca Morgan, he had l>ui one daughter, Mis. James 
Breath, but lefl .1 large famil) by Ims second, Catharine Wyly, llis name 
appeal s mi the 1 (all Pa) Roll. 

V BR AH AM VI.SOP LEGO ETT, his eldesl son, was admitted in 1842, and 
died i" March, 1869, 

UIII1WI iii\i<\ I.EGGETT, son ol the last, was admitted in 1870, 
and died, unmarried, on the nth ol Vpril, 18 

PAl I ERNEST PIEMANN, M.D., his gn itgrandson, through the 

eldesl female, Mrs. lames Breath, was admitted in the succession in 1885, the 
i male line ha\ ing bei 1 mie exl ini t. 



MORGAN LEWIS 



s . Q •■ 

Born in \i» Vork Cit) on the 16th ol October, 1754, and died then on th< 

■;lh ol Vpi il, 1844, 

IK- was the second son ol Francis I ewis, ''the signer," who emigrated to 
this countr) from Wales, England. He wenl to .1 school in Elizabeth, N I ; 
entered and graduated with honor from Princeton, and studied law in the oflv 1 

Ol IhIui I i\ 



I III SI 1 OF THE CINCINNA I I. 249 

lii June, 1775, he joined the army al Cambridge as a volunteer, and was in 
August of that year appointed Captain of a rifle company in New \ ork, and on 
the ''Hi oi October ol the same year Majot of the 2d Regiment of New York 
Militia. In June, 177'', he was an Aide to Gates with stafl rank of Colonel, and 
on the following 23d of August, by acl ol Congress, appointed Quartermaster- 
General of the Northern Department, with headquarters at Ticonderoga. After 
Burgoyne's surrender, he was detailed to take < harm- of the British troops. 

Id- accompaned Governor Clinton in the expedition up the Mohawk, and 
again in 1780 to Crown Point to intercept a second invasion. 

Having married Gertrude, the daughter of Robert Livingston, the Judge, 
of Clermont, he practiced law, after the peace, in Dutchess County, and was 
successively Attorney-General of the State. Judge of the Supreme Court, and 
in 1801 Chief-Justice ; Governor of New York State in [804, and a m< mber oi 
tin- Legislature from [808 to 1811. 

In the War of 1812 he served with the rank ol Brigadier-General, Quartet 
mastet and Major-General, and in 1814 was in command at New York <ity. 

Presidenl of the New York Historical Society in 1835, having delivered the 
centennial address in honor of Washington in [832, being President of this 
Societ) al that time, and in 1839 Presidenl General, both of which positions 
In- held until his decease. Ilis name appears on the Malt Pay Roll.* 

MORGAN LEWIS LIVINGSTON, his eldest grandson (by his only child, 
Margaret, who married Maturin Livingston), was admitted in 1854, in accord 
ami- with the resolution passed by the General S01 ietj in 1829.! 

SAMUEL LEWIS 

Lieutenant 1st New York Regiment. 

Died 25th (if AugUSt, 1822. 

Appointed Ensign of the 3d New York Regiment on the zisl of Novem- 
ber, 1776 — Colonel Gansevoort's and promoted to be Lieutenant in the same 
on the 1st of May, 1780. Transferred to Bleecker's Company in the ist New 
York Regiment — Colonel Van Schaick's — after the ( onsolidation, 1st of Janu- 
ary, [781, and mustered to r/82. Me resided at Northumberland, N. Y., and 
married Sarah Van Volkenburg, of Albany, by whom he had seven sons and 
one daughter. Professor Tayler Lewis, of the New York I ni\ersity and 
Union < oil. ye, ri markable for his thorough knowledge of the Creek diali 1 t, 

* Mrs, Julia Delafield, his granddaughter, in 1877 published .1 very inti I him. 

■ ■ ante, pagi 1 



250 THE MX II I \ OF 1111 CINCINNATI. 

was his fourth son, and served on the last committee to revise the Bible, 
but died Inline its completion. 

Samuel Lewis was a member of the New State Legislature, from Saratoga 
County, from 1 So 1 tn [810, Ills name appears cm the Half-Pay Roll. 



B ROCKHOLS T LIVING S J O N* 

Staff rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-Camp. 

Born in New York cm the 25th of November, 1757. Died at Washington, 
l>. C, on the 17th of March, 1823, 

His father, William Livingston (one of the most distinguished members oi 
that family, which contributed so many representative men), settled in New 
Jersey in 177,;, served in the first Continental Congress in 1774, anil as the 
Governor of New Jersey in i 7 7 «>. 

lie left college in New Jersey (Princeton) at the age Of nj; was on the 
staff of General Schuyler in the Northern Department, with St. Clair at the fall 
of Ticonderoga, and subsequently an Aide to Arnold in the Battle oi Saratoga, 
and at Burgoyne's surrender with stall rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 

\w 1 7 7 < > he accompanied, as secretary, his brother- in-law, John Jay, then 
Minister to Spain. Returning in [782, was captured by a British cruiser, and 
imprisoned in New York, hut released when Sit Guy Carleton assumed com- 
mand, A member of the New York Legislature in 17S8 and 1 800, and a 
trustee n\ Columbia College. He practiced law, and was chosen one oi the 
Judges ol tin Supreme Court of New York in 1802, and 111 November, [806, 
one of the [udges of the United States Court, which he retained until his 
death. The selection of him as a Regent of the New York University in [784, 
and the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 18 18, were among the tributes 
accorded to his talents. 

Hi married three times, and left a large family of children. His 11. inn 
appears upon the Half- Pay Roll as Lieutenant-Colonel Brockholst I ivingston. 

CARROL] LIVINGSTON, his eldest surviving son. was admitted in 1854, 

anil died 111 1 S67. 

CHARLES CARROLL LIVINGSTON, his grandson, only surviving son 

of the last, was admitted in [868, 



in-, name was Henry Brockholst Livingston, but In- omitted 1 ■ i — first name, the more readily i" be 
distinguished from his relative, Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston. 



I in S0CIE1 v OF l in I I'.' inn \ l l. -'5' 

HENRY BEEKMAN LIVINGSTON 

Aide-de-Camp and Colonel \th New York Regiment. 

Horn at the Manor on the 9th of November, 1750. Died al his country 
seat, in Dutchess County, on the 5th of November, 1831. 

He was a son of fudge Robert R. Livingston, oi Clermont, and Margaret, 
the daughter of Colonel Henry Beekman. 

In August, 1775, he raised a company,and joined his brother-in-law, General 
Richard Montgomery, on his expedition to Montreal, and was with him when 
he fell before Quebec. 

Appointed bj General Philip Schuyler in February, 1 770, one of Ins./ 
and in May following attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In accori 
with the act of Congn pa ed on the i6th of September, 1776, regul 
the quotas to I"- furnished by the different states in the Continental Establish- 
ment, he was on the 2 ist of November, 1776, commissioned Colonel ol the 4th 
\<w Noil Battalion or Regiment. On the 13th of January, 1779, he resigned 
from the service, it is claimed, on account ol Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Van 
( lortlandf d< ii ing the command. 

At the Battle ol Brandywine he was severely wounded, leading an assault, 
and in the engagement at Quaker Hill, R. I., was especially distinguished. 
Congress in December, 1775, presented him, in accordance with a resolution 
to thai effei t, with a sword for services rendered in the 1 apture ol < lhambly. 

After the war he was appointed Attorney General, and subs, quently one ol 
the Chief-Justices of the State of New York. When the second war for inde- 
pendence broke out, in 1812, he again gave himself to arms for his country's 
defi nee, attaining the rank of Major-General '. 

In March, 1781, he married Miss Ann Horn Shippen, of Philadelphia, by 

whom he had but one child, Margaret, who died tarried. His elder brother, 

Robert R., was known as "the Cham ellor," and liis youngest, Edward, was the 
Statesman and Minister to France. He was also a distant relativi ol Colonel 
[ami I i\ ingston.* 



* Colonel [ames Livingston appeal to havi been uni untabl I in history. He 

■ born in Canada in 1747, and died in Saratoga, V V., on thi 20th ol November, [832. He 
onnected with many of the founders ol the < ini innati S01 

Hi father, [ohn Livingston, of Stillwater, N. Y., was thi 
Livingston, nephew and namesake of the first proprietoi •■( thi I >n Manor. His mother 

■ itharine, thi of General Abraham Ten Broeck, who had settled in Canada. He 

and his two brothers joined General Montgomery— their kin his arrival 



252 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

The following account of his meeting with I. a Fayette is interesting : 

" In 1S24 the Marquis made his triumphal journey through the United States. A steam- 
boat was taken off the line and placed at his disposition in New York, and he and his suite 
proi eeded immediately up the Hudson, and paid General Lewis a visit at Staatsburgh. A colla- 
tion was ready for them, and alter remaining with us a few hours he returned to the steamboat, 
which was in waiting at the General's private dock, and we wire all invited to join his party and 
accompany him to Clermont. 

" When we arrived abreast of the Rhinebeck landing, the steamboat was hailed by a row- 
boat. The Captain stopped, and Colonel Henry Heekman Livingston, who had been the Colonel 

there, and all became officers ; he a Colonel, Richard a Lieutenant-Colonel, and Abraham a 
Captain. 

When the expedition failed, the troops returned home, and he, cut off from further recruiting 
in Canada, appears by a letter dated from New York and now among the State archives. 
addressed to John Jay, then in the Provincial Congress, as occupied in rilling up his command in 
that city : 

" Dear Sir : I am just now informed by Captain Wright that lie can raise a company of men in this town and 
suburbs. Should take it a particular favor if you'd mention thi matter to the Gentlemen of the Provincial Congress, 
and if approved beg you'll furnish him the money tor that purpose. He is a good recruiting officer, and 1 believe 
he'll soon raise a company. I shall settle the matter respecting the rank of the officers with General- Schuyler, 
agreeable to die order from Congress, as soon as these two companies Wright's and Stewarts — are filled. General 
Washington will order them to the northward where 1 propose going to-morrow or next day, at furtherest, if not 
wanted here. The enemy .ire .a Flatbush, their numbers not known, though we every moment expect an attack, I 
shall wail youranswei this evening, and am with respect iTours &i 

"New V.ik ,ih August 177. 1. JAMES LIVINGSTON." 

When Colonel James Livingston's Regiment, with the main army, was stationed on the 
Hudson, a letter from Washington to Arnold, dated Peekskill, 3d of August, 17S0, attests the 
great attention he was devoting to the security of the passes of that river, protecting King's 
Ferry and strengthening West Point. After minute details, in which all his orders abound, he 
directs "Colonel James Livingston's Regiment to garrison the redoubts at Ston) and Ver Planck's 
Points." litis lixes that officer's presence there. 

Arnold's object in assuming command of West Point (the key to the concerted disruption of 
the Colonies), the value of which was appreciated by the enemy, and which he intended finally to 
turn over to them, is thus given by Sparks in his " Washington's Writings" : 

" Although there had been various intimations to the Commander-in-Chief that Aim-:. I wished the command 
.a West Point, yet lie had delayed conferring it, probablj because lie considered the services >i so efficient an 
officer much more important in the main army. In thi arrangements of the arm) therefore, published in 1 
Orders, on the 1st of August (two days before 1— ' the command of the left win.; was assigm d 10 Arnold.' When it 
was found thai he was disappointed ami dissatisfied and 1 omplained ' that his wound would not allow him to act in 
the field,' Washington complied with his request to be stationed at Wesl Point." 

Arnold's attractive wife, the daughter of Chief-Justice Shippen, was socially cultivated In 
British officers, and had, it is recorded, Major Andre as a correspondent and commissionaire in 
New York. When the General Order, and her husband was not to control West Point, was 
announced at the dinner table of Colonel Robert Morris', at Springatesbury, near Philadelphia 
(although it was tor a position as honorable) she swooned. After the denouement and Arnold's 
escape, she repeatedly apparently fainted, and was frantic until she had obtained a passport from 
Washington to follow her husband to within the British lines. It i-. also recorded that she told 
an English lady " she was heartily sick of the theatrics shi wai exhibiting." 

When the sloop-of-war " Vulture," protected by a Hay of truce, on the t St h ol September, 
17S0, anchored off Teller's Point, a few miles below King's 1cm ta position singularly incon- 
venient both to land and cover Major Andre during his meeting with Arnold at Smith's house at 
tin Clove), where they were consummating their treason, the frustration of which has been 
attributed to Colonel Henry l'eekman Livingston, which is not correct, as he then for nearly 
eighteen months had been out of the service. Investigation clearly shows that the credit was due 





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T n i\ OF THE C1N( INNATI. 253 

of one of La Fayette's Regiments, was assisted up the side of the steamer. La Fayette n 

him as he put his fool on the deck ; the <>1<1 men fell into each others arms, and there was not a 

dry eye in the 1 rowd. 

" At Clermont a fete to the tenantry, a ball and fireworks were in preparation to celebrati 
his arrival. A rainy afternoon interfered with the outdoor amusements, but the dance was a 
success, liefore an) one was allowed to take the Moor, the hand played, and La Fayette gavi his 
arm to Mrs. Montgomerj rhej opened the ball by walking twice around the mom The 
dancing then commenced. 

" The supper table was set undei the orange trees in the green-house ; my scat was next to 
George Washington La Fayette. He was a grave, middle-aged man. and looked more like a 
( lei man than a Frenchman, 

" In the evening we wen- a little disturbed by a delegation from Hudson, requiring that 
La Fayette should be given up to them, as if he had become a Stale prisoner. They wanted 
their share of the guest of the nation. General Lewis, who was a member of the Committee who 
had him under their protection, was steady in his refusal, and secured for the veteran a quiet 
sleep, w hich he greatly nei ded." 

His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



to the vigilance and prompt and independent action of Colonel James Livingston. Commanding 
at Verplanck's Point, he had watched passing events with suspicion, and questioned the propriety 
and motive of this flag of truce with his General's headquarters. With a seemingly providential 
instinct he applied directly to Major John Lamb for some ammunition for the only gun— .1 foui 
pounder — which Arnold had forgotten and left him. Lamb's answer to his request is interesting, 
and is as follows 

" Wi-sr Point, 20th September, 1780. 

"Sir: I have sent you the ammunition you requested, bui at the same time I wish there maj nol be .1 wanton 
waste of it, as we have verj little to spare. 

" Firingal a ship with a four-founder is in my opinion .1 waste ,,f powder, as the damage she will sustain is 

nol equal to the expensi Whcnevci applications are made foi i inition they must be made through the com- 

manding officer of the artillery at tie post w hi re ii 1- * I 

'• I am, Sir, yours, Ac., A. , 

" Colonel Livingston. "JOHN LAMB" 

A Strong tide and the distance at which the " Vulture" lay prevented Andre's return lo her 
on the 21st after the plot was consummated, and on the next day Colonel fames Livingston, with 
remarkable self-reliance, verging on insubordination to his adjacent superiors, and indifferent at 
Lamb's economical caution, tested the capacitj ol his little nun, and at the firsl shut, so skillfully 
as to strike the "Vulture" between wind and water, causing her to slip her anchor ami drop 
down to Tarrytown. The reverberation of its rcporl amongst the surrounding Highlands 
sounded an era iu American History. I leserted by its effect. Ma/or Andre traveled by land to 
his unhappy destiny, while lite traitOl Arnold escaped in the " Vulture " as a fugitive to New 
York, in his place, 

" Washington, returning from hi- \isit to Count Rochambeau at Hartford, reached Arnold's 
headquarters at the Robinson House on the 25th, and being informed of Arnold's flight, desirous 
ol detail ami consultation, ami doubtful who then to trust, wrote to t olonel Lamb as follows ; 

"Sir: It is my wish to set Colon fami Livingston to-night, and I write him by you on this occasion. In 

his absence you will take command of the posts of SI. my and Ver Planck's points till further on 

" 1 am Sir with Kie.it respect .uitl esteem 

" Hbao QuartbrSi Robinson's House in the mostobedi sent 

" Highland " GO. washing ion." 

" 25th Septembei 1 , 

He was a member ol the New York Legislature from 1 784 to 1791, and married Elizabeth 
Simpson, of Montreal. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



' j I THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

SAMUEL LOGAN 

Major ^lh .\V,v York Regiment. 

I in-. I m i S • |. 

He was a Corpora/ in the 8oth Regimenl ol the British Army in the French 
and Indian war, 1755 59, receiving as a bounty a tract of two hundred acres in 
the present town of Charlotte, Vermont. 

He settled at New Windsor, N. Y., prior to the Revolution, and was elected 
on the 23d "i September, 177s, Captain of a company of Minute Men, serving 
in Colonel Pawling's Regiment of General George Clinton's Brigade. He was 
selected on the ;ist of March, 1777. a-- \fajoi ot that regiment, and was on 
duty in a detachment of the militia of Westchester, Dutchess, Ulster ami 
Orange, defending the Highlands. 

In Ulster County, on the 16th of May ol' that year, having performed his 
duty satisfactorily, he appears as one of the only two field officers in the five 
regiments as an excellent disciplinarian, and recommended tor the Standing 
Army, and vvhii h appears to have been soon complied with, and he was com- 
missioned from the 21st ol November, 177!'. a Major in Colonel Du Hois' 
Regiment. In October, 1777. he was taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery, 
and not released until after three years' captivity on the 21st of December, 
1780 -when he returned to and joined his regiment, then the 5th New Vork, 
and served with it until deranged l>\ the Consolidation. 

His occupation was that of a hatter at New Windsor, lie married Abigail 
l 'lark, ol Cornwall, N. V., b) whom he had several children. 1 lis name appears 
on the Halt 1'ay Roll. 

1 \MKS JARED LOGAN, his great grandson, was admitted in 1878. 



LEBBEUS LOOMIS 

Lieutenant 1st Connecticut Regiment. 

Born ai Colchester, Conn., in 1756. Died at Cherrj Valley, N. V., on the 
totli oi January, 1 836. 

When seventeen years of age he, as a volunteer, was in the Battle oi Bunker 
Hill, and entered, the Continental Army soon afterwards as an Ensign in Colonel 
Swiii's Connecticut Regiment, Subsequently he was appointed Adjutant of 
his regiment, with the rank of Lieutenant, serving until the .lose ,.1 the war. 
Was in the battles oi Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and was 



I ill 0CIET1 hi Mil CINCINNATI, 255 

actively engaged in the organizal ol the Militia, which has since replaced 

the Continental Line. He was later in life appointed Major and then Colonel 

ol ( in- oi the New York City Regiments Of Artillery, and died with the esteem 
of his associates and the respet I of I he publii . 

lie was an original member of the lair Connecticut State Society, hut 
removing to New York City, mel with the New York State Society, where hi 
became a prominenl member of us Standing Committee. 

In 1K2.S he removed to Cherry Valley, Otsego C ty, when he left surviv- 
ing him one son and three daughters, by Ins wife, Eliza Kellogg, all of whom 
ill. d in childhood. His name appears on I lie Half- Pay Roll. 



HENRY EMANUEL LUTTERLOH 

Colonel ,111, 1 Deputy Quartermaster-General. 

Hi 1 1. id served, prior to the War of the Revolution, as a Major in Germany, 
Appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General, with the rank of Colonel, in the ('on 
tinental Army, by a special order signed by Washington, 30th of June, 1777. 
lie served until rendered supernumerary by a reorganization and reduction of 
thai Departmi nt, when he was honorably discharged. 

By General orders at Orangetown, 30th ol September, 1780, he was 
appointed Commissary a/ /•',>>■, ix<\ in whi< h position he served until his resig- 
nation, 1st of May, 17M.5. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll with the 
rank of Colonel. 

THOMAS MACHIN 

< ',!/■/, 11 11 New ) ork Artillery. 

Horn in 1 744. Died 3d of April, [816. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Knox's Regimenl oi Conti 
nental Artillery, at the Siege ol Boston, on the 1st of January, 1776. On the 
10th of June, 1776, Washington, from headquarters in New York, directed 
Major-General Artemus Ward, then in command al Boston, to send Lieutenant 
Mat hin immediately to him. He senl him to Fori Montgomi n on the 2isl ol 

July, 1776, writing tO ( 'olonel James < lint on, then 111 1 01 1 iniand, as follows : 

" The bearer, Lieutenant Machin, I hav< enl to act a an Engineei in thi po ts under your 

command and -a such othei placei as ma) bethought necei arj lie is an ing lan and 

has given great satisfaction as in Engineei at Boston from which he has just returned." 



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Appointed Captain- Lieutenant of the 2d Regiment Continental Corps of 
Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — on the 1st of January, 1777, and promoted Captain 
on the j 1 st of August, 1780, and honorably discharged the service on the 3d 
1 >i November, 1 783. 

The chevaux-de-frize and other obstructions, extending from the flats, 
below Murderer's Creek to Pollopel's Island, in the Summer of 177N, were 
constructed under his superintendence. West Point was then considered the 
Strongest military post in America. In addition to the batteries upon I lie 
heights, a very heavy c\\m\ spanned and obstructed tile passage of the Hudson 
River. It was wrought of ore taken from the Sterling Mines in Orange 
County, Machin superintending the work. 

Governor Clinton, writing to him on the subject of erecting works for the 
defense oi Kingston, says : 

1 do not conceive II necessary to enclose the town, as the houses arc stone, ami will form 
— if the windows are properly secured — good lines of defence." 

In 17S4 he built a grist, saw, and subsequently a coinage mill at Quassaick 
Creek, the outlet of Orange Lake, near Newburgh, N, Y., and gave it the name 
of New Grange. 

In 17S7 he formed a partnership with a company, chartered by the State of 
\ ermont, lor coining copper, with a capital of ^";,oo, under general privileges 
then allowed by Congress and the States, and subsequently united with another 
firm, consisting of Reuben llarinan and Israel Van Yoris, a goldsmith of New 
York City, for the limited term of eight years. Only a thousand pounds of 
copper appear to have been coined at Machin's Mills, anil in 1790 they were 
discontinued. 

He married Susan Win Nostrand, and died in his seventy-second year at 
Charleston, Schoharie County, N. Y, His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

THOMAS MACHIN, his only son. was admitted in 1S5S, and died on the 
iSth of May, 1875, at the age of eighty-nine. 



EBENEZER MACOMBER 

Captain 2d Rhode Island Regiment. 

I bed on the _-,! 1: ol \pnl, 1 829, 

1 le was an original member of the Rhode Island Society, but was trans- 
ferred to the New York upon his removal to that State in [827. 

Appointed Lieutenant in the 2d Rhode Island Regiment — Colonel Israel 
Angel— on the 12th of June, 1777. Subsequently promoted to be Captain, 



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when it was commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Olney. His name appears on the 
Half-Pay Roll. 

KDWARD MACOMBER, his second son, was admitted to the succession 
by the New York Society in 1849, being a resident of Brooklyn, and his elder 
brother declared " non compos mentis." 



PETER MAGEE 

Lieutenant 1st New York Regiment. 

In a letter from his brother, James Magee, dated Fishkill, 29th of Novem- 
ber, 1776, he speaks of him as a Second Lieutenant in the army stationed at 
Fort Constitution, and urging that he be retained as an officer under the new 
arrangement of the New Vork Line. 

Commissioned Ensign in the 3d New Vork Regiment — Colonel Gansevoort's 
— on the 21st of November, 1776. Promoted to be Lieutenant in De Witt's 
Company on the 16th of May, 1779, and subsequently transferred to the isl 
New York Regiment, Continental Infantry— Colonel Van Schaick's — and served 
with it to the end of the war. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



SAMUEL MANSFIELD 

Captain New York Artillery. 

Hied 5th of February, 1S10. 

Appointed Captain 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel 
Lamb's — 1st of January, 1777. Honorably discharged the service at his own 
request on the 8th of November, 1778. 

He was admitted to membership by the New York State Society in 1S04. 
IPs name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

• 

JOHN MARSH 

Ensign \st New York Regiment. 

I lied in New York in 1798. 

He was appointed Sergeant of Hicks' Company, 1st New \ • nk Regiment, 

on the 15th of December, 1776, Sergeant-Major of the Colonel's Company on 



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the 22d of January, 17S0, and on the 29th of September following Em oi 
the Sixth Company of the 1st New York Regiment C Van Schaick's 

and served with it until honorably discharged the service at the termination of 
the war. His name appears on the Half-Pav Roll. 



ILIIIU MARSHALL 

ain zd AYw York Regiment. 

Died on the 10th of April, 1 S06. 

In a certificate, without dale, among the Siate historical manuscripts signed 
by Colonel Ritzema and the other field officers of the 3d New York Continental 
Regiment, he is mentioned as "a good officer, will make a good Adjutant;" 
and in another, signed by General John Morin Scott, which is also without 
date, mentions him as being the Adjutant ol it. 

Appointed Lieutenant in the 2d New York Regiment, Continental tnfantr) 
— Colonel Van Cortlandt's — on the Jist of November, 1770 Subsequently 
promoted to be Captain, and deranged under the Act oi Congress in 1780. 
Honorably discharged, after serving Ins countrj for five years. His name 
appears on the Half- Pay Roll.* 



ALEXANDER McDOUGALL 

Major-General. 

Born on the Island of lslay. Scotland, in 1731. Died in New York on the 
8th of June, 1 786. 

His father brought him over, in 1755. to New York City, settled on a farm 
on its outskirts, where lie commenced life as a punter; then a captain of one 
of the coasting vessels of that day. ami subsequently became commander of the 
privateer " Tiger," in 1 758. 

When the Assembly, in 1 7 < •< j . considered the obnoxious bill for the New 
York City troops to overawe its inhabitants, he issued an address, entitled " A 
Son of Liberty to the Betrayed Inhabitants of the Colony," for which he was 
imprisoned, and when indicted for libel, was defended by Governoi George 
Clinton. After his release he became an active Son oj Liberty in 1765. In 
1774, July 6th, lie presided at the meeting which selected delegates to the first 



rhe Societ) assisted him during thi \ ire o( his life, and at his decease defrayed the expenses of his 

burial. 




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Mil I'V Ol' I I II ■ ,, 

Continental Congress from New Vork, and in the Colli iw ing ycai wa elected to 
i In Provim ial < onvention, 

llr entered thi servici ■ * i ( 'olonel in 1 77s, in command ol the first Coin 

regii 1 1 "i patriots ol New Vork who took up arms in opposition to th< 

oppression <>i 1 he ( blonists bj tin * rown. 

Appoint 'i ( 'olonel "i the isl New Vbrk Continental Infantrj on the 30th ol 
[ une, 1776, undei the Act of Congres passed on tin [4th ol March of thai 
\..n Promoted to be Brigadiei General on the '/ill "I August, 1776, and 
Majoi General on tin ioth of October, 1777. 

lie hr lil 1 In- rear and superintended the debarkation ol the American troop 

mi Mir eve " "i the igth ol August, iyy'>, after their repuli Long l land. 

llr. brigade, composed ol the 1 1 and |il New Vbrk ; 7th Connecticut, ( 'olonel 
Charles Webb's; isl Maryland, Colonel William Smallwood's ; pli Rhode 
[gland, Colonel Christophei Lippett'i ; and Captain Alexander Hamilton's 
Company ol New Vork Vrtillery, served in the Battle ol White Plains on 

iii' .Hi hi October, 1776, taking • portanl pari in 1 In- action al ' hattci 

i"i>' Hill. 

[n Washington General Order, dated al Harlem Heights, on the 1 ;l ii ol 
1 1 1. 1 1 month, il was 1 signed 1 1 1 G >u ral I harles I > Division, which delayed 

mi Inn:', in follow in 1 lir hi 1 ci 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 In 1 1 1 11 . It co vi red the pa a 

the troops across the Hudson River .11 Pcekskill, on the 23d ol March, 1777. 
1 1 al served al the Battle ol Germantown, and subsequent!) al White Marsh, 
.mil then wenl into w intei quartet i .m Valley Forgi 

On the [6th ol March, 1778, In was in coi and tr noting the forts in 

the Highlands, as planned and located bj THADDEUS KOSCIUSZK.O, 
Colonel oj Engineers, and aftei mcceeding General Israel Putnam, was, on tin 

• ■■ I "i I , 1 ; ."■ 1 . 1 n mi mi 1 al Wi 1 Poinl aftei Vruold csi ipc. This 

position in 1 held until .1 question having arisen betwei n him and a ffici 1 

in 1 ,11111,11 \ , 1 ; ■■: 1 1, he \\ . 1 1 1 n 'I l>\ 1 inn 1 martial foi using di n ipectful Ian 

on the occasii 1 vasion ol his authority, a In supposed By its direi 

tion General Washington, with the approval < >i Congre 1, censured him ; nol 
wil hstanding, in did nol losi theii respect foi 1 

\i the end ol the wai In was chosen chi , 1 tin committci from New 

burgh which cj 'I the grievi ■ ol the • \ to Congn 1 in the Winter ol 

1783. 

In 1 ■;,' '. |, ' hi 1 In i)i ii 1 .1 [une, he was elected the fu 1 Presidenl ol the Banl 
ol New Vork, and served until the 9th ol May, 1785, when hi 1 1 igned the 
position, He was a Delegati to the Continental Congn from New York in 
September, 1780, and in February, 1784, undei tin Vrticli V State Sen 
1 , .". 1 until his death, The first Presidenl ol the New Vork State Sociel 



i m RO( ii r\ OF rin CINCIN \ \ i i. 

of the Cincinnati. Having married, he died, leaving an only daughter surviv 
ing him, the wife ol i fohn Laurance, also a membei ol 

the Cincinnati S<<, :i< ■: y, 1 1 is name appears on the 1 l.ilf- Pay Roll. 

JOHN MeDOUGAl I I U RANGE, his 011I3 grandson, was the first 
hereditary member admitted b\ the New Vork State Society in 179S. He died 
on the -■-•>] of M.i\. [S35, at French Creek, Jefferson Co., \. V. 



RANALD STEPHEN McDOUGALL 

s ; 

Appointed >S vtcnant 1st Regiment \ ^ w Vork Continental Infantry 

McDougall's en the 28th of June, 1775. Served in the Canada 
Campaign as S ,.■ . ol 1 Go irth's Company. In Cti 

Richard Varick's list, dated .-Sth of March. 177c. ol officers nol provided for, 
lu is mentioned as "a brave officer," and again in another as •■ .1 prison* 

He was subsequent!) 1 1 McDougall, with the rank of 

His name appears on the Half-Pa) Roll. 

charles Mcknight 

v S . ., . Flying Hospital, 

Born at Cranberry , N. J., on the 10th of October, t Died on the 10th 

1 'i Nov< nber, 1791. 

He came from a family who crossed from Scotland over to Ireland early in 
the 17th Century. His greal grandfather lost an arm in 1700 at the Battle 
of the Boyne. His grandfather bee. .me a Presbyterian preacher ol the gospel 
in the Emerald Isle, but emigrating to America in 1740, settled in New h x 
His father followed "the calling," and from his sermons, opposing the oppres- 
Ol the Crown, made enemies of the fories, who retaliated by burning, in 
1777. his church at Middletown Point. They then arrested and threw him in 
prison, ami from their iineh 1 1-1 ianlike treatment and cruelties he dud in Jan- 
uary, 1778. His elder brother, Captain Richard McKnight, who underwent 
ante torture in one of the British prison-ships at the VVallabout, dud also 
foi i he cause. 

Appointed V a ., of the Flying Hospital of the Middle Depart 

moil of the Continental Army on the 11th of April, 1777. Al one time, it is 



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i I. :d, In- acted as the Chiej Physician and Surgeon-General In command of 

the llnis in Hospital .it the Cantonments on the Hudson River, neai New 

\\ indsor. 

h is in orded of him : 

" i ii.it in the disi hargi ol thi Importanl and arduous duties of his station, his tali nl md 
indi i iii^.-ilili- /i-.-il wen cquallj | ius, and thai he was preemine"ntlj faithful in theii pei 

i.. i in. in- 1 

At the close of the war he was chosen Professor of Surgery and ^.natomj 
in Columbia College (also a trust© I, d< livering i elebrated lectures to a numer- 
ous ' lass mi his specialties, with u< li ability as won for him extended approba 
tion. His life was one of constant activity as a pfactitioner and teacher, until 
Ins forty-first year, when, from a protracted illness, the result of an injury 
received in the war, he was i ompelled to terminate liis useful ' an - i 

President I >uer said of him : 

" Doctoi Mi Knight, though verj eminent as a physician, w i i ularl) distingui hed a i 

-I in ii, ind at the time ol his death was without a rival in this branch of his profi 

sion. Gifted by nature with talents peculiarly calculated for thi - ei f thi important duties 

of ;i surgeon, hii i dui ition In an espi - Ial mannei enabled him i" .in.nn the highesl reputation 

lie married Mary, the only daughter "i General fohn Morin Scott, by 
whom he hail one son ami four daughters. His name appears mi the Half-Pay 
Roll. 

JOHN MORIN SCOTT McKNIGHT, M.D., his only son, was admitted 
in [81 6, anil died on the 8th of May, 1848, 

CHARLES SCOTT McKNIGHT, only son of tin- last, was admitted in 
[853, and served mi the Standing Committee many /ears. 



DANIEL McLANE 

Lieutenant $d Artillery, Massachusetts. 

Vppointed Second Lieutenant of the 3d Regiment Continental Corps "I 
Artillery Colonel John Crane — on the 9th o( November, 177'!. Wounded at 
tin- Battle nl Rhode Island on the 29th >>! August, 177*, but was again on 
duty at Springfield, Mass., in fanuary, 1779. 

Ill- was ,M one time the Judgt \d\ cat "i a courl martial held in Provi- 
dent e, R. I.. ' ai tin- 71 li nl Septembet , 1 ; 71). 

On the 30th nl September, 1783, In- was honorablj discharged Reap 
pointed Lieutenant ol tin I nited States Battalion of Artillery Captain fohn 



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Doughty's i'ii the 4th of March, 1791, and promoted to be I of the 

same on the 4U1 ol November, 1 

Honorabl) discharged the service .11 his own request on the -'il of April, 
1793. When .it Charleston, s. C, he associated unh the Societ) in tint State. 
His name appears on the Hall Paj Roll, 



DAN [EL M EN EM A 

a •.(/ JYno ] * 1 ut. 

Appointi ' ol the ,;<l Regiment New York Continental 

Infantrj 1 ■. .' Rudolph Ritzema on the — 7 1 1 1 of April, 177(1. Promoted 
on ilir 1st ot August, 1778, Surgeon of the 2d New York Regiment Co 
Van Cortlandt's— and mustered to January, 17S2. 

He was a resident ami the Sherifl oi Queens County, 1. [., in 1792. His 
name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



ANDREW MOODIE 

i Vew York \rtiNery. 

Died on the 18th of September, 1787, 

llr was a resident- of and enlisted from Poughkeepsie, N. N. Appointed 
b) 1 Montgomery, on the 6th of December, i;:> Lieutenant in the New 

York Provincial Compart) ol Artillery— 1 . ■ ■ . |ohn I amb's. 

In the daring assault on Quebec, on the .wst of December, 1775, while 
serving as . he was taken prisoner with most ol his company. Kept in 

close confinement until paroled on the 3d of August, 177(1, and then sent in a 
cartel to Elizabethtown, N, I . arriving there on the 20th ol September, 177", 
and exchanged on the iSth of April, 1777. 

It appears by the State Records of 1775, 

"That the treasure! n ordered to pa) £$ monthly to the wife ol Vndrev M lie, in 

who went to Canada, and was taken prisoner on the 31st ol Deeember." 

Appointi. I 1 .'i the -'I Regimen! Continental Corps of Artillery— 

.' I .null's -on the 1st ol January, 1777. On the 30th ol September, 1783, 
he was promoted Major (by brevet), and continued in the service until honor- 
abl) discharged, with a portion of Ins regiment, on the 1st of January, 1784. 
On the i;-tii ol Vpril following he was appointed 1 < ■ ol New 

York. I lis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



I ill IT OK THE CINCINNATI, ',6 ; 

fOSEPH MOR R I' LI. 

Ensign ist Neno York Regiment. 

Ili entered the service as Sergeant ol I lav is' Company ol the |t li New 
York Regiment Colonel W. li, Livingston's on the toth ol December, 177'', 
and Sergeant-Majoi on the isi of March, 1779. Appointed Ensign in the 
same <>\ the tst of fune, 1779, and on the consjlidation ol the Mew York 
Line was transferred to the 1 si New York Regiment Colonel Van Si haii I 
ami served in Von ' < lompan) until honorably discharged, 

Was a member ol ili<' New York Legislature from Orange Count) in 1810. 

I I is name appears mi 1 hr 1 1 all Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM WALTON MORRIS 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Born in 1758. Died on the 51I1 of April, [83 • 

lie was the second sun of Lewis Morris (the Signer), and several ol Ins 
family opposed the Crown, Lewis was an Aide-de Camp to General Greene, 
Staats in General Wayne and [acob to General Charles Lee, whili thi youngest, 
Richard Valentine, subsequently became a Commodore in the United Stati 
Navj I' 1 derived the name ol Walton from his mother's family, oi iL 
Walton House in Pearl Street, New York City, lately pulled clown, and where 
British officers were once feted on account ol their victories in Canada at the 

I line ol I he I' l vm h U a i . 

On the .id of |uly, 1777,11a- General Assembly appointed him Quarter- 
master "i the 1 • 1 Regimenl ol State Volunteei fnfantrj Colonel Peter Enos 
raised for sea coast and frontier di fen 1 , and in the Middle Department it was 
detailed undei General Israel Putnam for the defense ol the Highlands along 
the 1 1 udson. 

When this regimenl was mustered oul on the ist of [anuary, 1778, he con 

I I I an d in servii e undi 1 1 1 rganization of the New York lane with the same 

rank, until agi li 11 hargi 'I on the 1 ;l ol Man h, 1771;- Reappointed on the 

.'isi ol December, 1781, Second Lieutenant ol the .''I Regimenl Continental 
Corps of Artillery Colonel Lamb's and became its Quartermaster on the fol- 
lowing est ol January, 1 7 X ^ , ami was onee v mustered out, with a pari "I 

Hi ibtcrlbccl I ili N ,\ \ ,: Roll , I Morrell, an I nub |uunlly it appeal 

.' foul i'i' M irrcll, l>ul In thi Itandwi Itlny of thi ! > 



I III .', M i \ 01 I Ml CINCINNATI. 

egiment, on the 3d ol November following, upon the reduction causi d b) 
the recenl 1 1 eat) ol peace 

On the 20th of October, 1786, he reentered the service as .1 »/// in 

the 3d Regiment ol the I nited States [nfantry, commanded by Lieutenant- 

David Humphrey, and raised for special service in Lhe West, but the 

emergency passing, he was again honorably discharged, with Ins regiment, on 

the -'is! ol Vpril, 1787, so terminating his military career. 

In 17S7 he was, with \braham Hardcnburgh, one ol the Commissioners to 
determine the boundary line between New York and Pennsylvania. After the 
war \\.is over he sold his interest in Morrisania, and removed to Ballston Spa, 
County, devoting himsell to breeding Merino sheep, then just intro- 
duced by 1 ■ I ivingston .is promising valuable results. 

IK' married Sarah Carpender, by whom he had a large family of sons and 
daughters. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

I K\\ IS MORRIS, Ins eldest son. u.is elected to membership in 1855, but 
died without leaving issue or subscribing Ins name to the Institution. 

\\ II 1 [AM CO! \ I K\l I R MORRIS ( l/<i I . S. \.i. his grandson, 
eldest son ol Ins second son. General William Morns, was admitted in the 
succession in 1870, and died at Sitka, Alaska, on the ,;ist of January, 1884, 
w 11 hout male issue. 



PETER NESTELL 

aiu-J ieutenant A '.■.. r" ! I 

I >ied in 1^17. 

He resided in m\A enlisted from New York City as a I/,/, t >ss in the New 
York Provincial Artillery Company — Captain 1 amb's- in June, 177s. 

In the assault on Quebec, on the ,;ist of December, 1775, he was taken 

prisonei with man) others ol his company, and enlisted in The British service 

on the 6th of January, 177". Soon afterward, escaping to Montreal, he 

rejoined the remainder of Ins company, then under C<> ■ ant Isaiah 

Wool, receiving a severe reprimand from ( 'a/tain 1 amb. 

1 he following is from I eake's Biography ol John I amb : 

" ri\c faithful fellow was onlj practicing a ruse in order i<> escape anil join the companj al 
1 il, which he did red with fidelitj and seal until he ".is discharged, Ni 

1 ;-■"■ "\ cause to blush for the officers of his selection, for all performed good sen 
lhe counti \ 



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Vt the end ol his year's enli tmenl he was app ted Second Lieutenant in 

Colonel I. .nub's Regiment Continental Corps ol Artillery, dating from I ary, 

1777. Promoted to I"- Lieutenant on the 9th of November, 1778, in Contain 
George Fleming's Company, and to Captain-Lieutenant, while on the march to 
Vorktown, on thi |d ol September, 1781. 

Honorably discharged with his regiment. He is recorded attending a 

ting ol the Virginia State Society on the 14th ol December, 1808. His 

names appeal on the Hall Pay Roll. 



(AMI'S NICHOLSON 

( aptain I 'nited States \ a\ 

Born in Chestertown, Md., in 17.57. Died in New York City on the 2d of 
September, 1 81 1 

He appears to have subscribed his name to the roll of thi Pennsylvania 
State Society, and in 1788 associated with and signed also the roll in New 
Vorl 

Captain Samuel Nicholson, an original member of the Massachusetts Si 

S ty, was his brother, and another brother, John, was also a Captain in the 

la 

Vfter the captun ol Havanna, in 1762, he resided in New York, and entered 
the Royal Navy. Subsequently in 1775 he commanded .1 Maryland vessel, 
1 hr "Defence," in which, in thi following year, hi appears to have been on 
the \ 11 1. 1 11 .in side, and successfully rei apturing several vessels which had been 
taken by thi Bril ish, 

Appointed in June, 1776, to the command ol the twi nt) eighl gun slii|>, the 
" Virginia," and in the following January succeeded Commodort 1 ekiel Hop- 
kins, the Commander-in-Chiel ol the Vmerican Navy. Ilis vessel being 

blockaded in the Chesapeake, he and his 1 rew joined the land 1 is and tool* 

pari in the Battle ol Trenton. When subsequently attempting to run i tu- 
blockade, sin- was captured, bul the) .ill managed to escape, and < ongn 
afti 1 wards ai quitted him I rom an) blame, 

Having taken imand ol the frigate "Trumbull," carrying thirt) eighl 

guns, he, on the -•'! of [une, 1780, brought her into action with the British 
ship " Wyatt," where he losl thirt) ol his men, and ofl the coasl ol Delaware 
she was subsequently captured by the enemy's ships, the "his" and the 
" < ieneral Monk," and dismantled. 

ee at pn 



rill S0C1E I \ OF I 111' CIN( w 

Alter the war he made New York City his residence, and in 1S01 was 
appointed a delegate to the State Convention, and in iSo^ United States 
Commissioner of 1 oans. 

He married Frances Witter, by whom he left surviving him a son and five 
daughters. 

ill \ Kl ES NICHOJ SON, his great-grandson, was admitted to the succes- 
sion by the Pennsylvania State Societj in 1SS3, 

DAN] E I. N I V 1 \ 

•> ■ 

Horn in 174: in Scotland. Hied on the 20th of November, 1S09, at New- 
burgh, N. V. 

He came 1 New York in 1770 from th< coast of Scotland, where he 

married Jane Wallace, a descendant of the Regent, William Wallace. 

In the State archives he appears to have app 1 Captain's commiss 

on the 10th of February, 1::". stating that "lie could raise a company from 
among his acquaintances." Washington, appreciating his determined 

character, appointed him I in a corps oi engineers, a\k\ he was 

stationed with it on duty along the Hudson, assisting in the construction of the 
forts on the Highlands and laying the chain cable across the river. Promoted 
to b( > of a Corps o\ Sappers and Miners on the 25th o\ April, 1770. 

He was stationed at West Point when Arnold lied. 

After the war he settled on a farm about two miles west i<\ Newblirgh, 
1 he became the Justice i'i the Peace, arresting and fining not on | 
James Clinton (his neighbor), and . Morgan lewis (afterwards Governor 

New Vork), but even lus own son, nine the Sabbath by driving 01 

traveling through the town. He represented New York City in the State 
slature in 17S8, when C \ arick was the Speaker, at Poughkeepsie. 

In the graveyard at Newburgh the following inscription, by the A 
John M. Mason. D.D., marks his tomb : 

I one, reposes in hope the flesh of Daniel Niven Esq, Strong sense, unaided 

In earlj cultivation, but united with tried integrity, recommend him to respect and confid< 
dew : . with unost< eal to the best interests ol society, he approved Ivimsell as .1 private 

Christian, unassuming and exemplary— as a Soldier in the Army, alerl and gallant as a Civil 
Magistrate, a terroi enforcing wholesome laws without fear, favor, or affection .is 

an officer in the church 1 sinterested vigilant public spirited faithful, and having passed 

through an active and varied life, honored by the esteem of gx>od and the fears of I'. id nun. he 
finished Ms course in the consolations of thai gospel which In- had loved." 

Hi-- name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



I ill OCIETY Ol MCINNATI. 

WILLIAM NORTH 

Captain 16I/1 Massachusetts Regiment, Aide-de-Catnp. 

Bom at Fort Frederick, Pemaquid, Maine, in 1 75s. Died in New Vorl 
( 'iiv mi the .;ii of January, 1 836. 

Ili' was the son ol Captain |<>lm North, of Thomaston, Maine, and was 
prepared bj earl) education and associations to till the positions he sei ured in 
after life. 

In 1,;; he wai nmissioned Captain in Co/one/ Henry Jackson's Massa- 
chusetts Regimeni In 1778 he was appointed an Aid, to Baron Steuben, 
with the rank ol Major, soon became a favorite, and occupied in training the 
troops under his system ol military instruction. Accompanying Steuben to 
Virginia, he was al the surrender of Comwallis .it Ybrktown Steuben lefl 
him the bulk ol the property which he- divided among his military companions. 

When the wai was over he was appointed Adjutant and Inspector-General 
of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General. He seised for several terms 
in the New Vfork I .egislature, and once as the Speaker ol the House. He was 
one- ol the Board of Canal Commissioners, and in 1798 chosen one ol New 
Vork's Senators in Congress. In [812 he was appointed Adjutant- C '/era ol 
1 In \mi\ , but declined i<> ai 1 . 

By his marriage with Mary, daughter of the Honorable James Duane, he 
became connected and identified with many prominenl families in the early 
history ni New Vork, where he long held the position ol an esteemed and 

USel III 'll l/rn. 

He signed the roll ol the Massachusetts Society with his regimental New 
Windsor, and his one month's pay was paid i>\ the Paymaster-General, John 

I'n i> 1 , in their in ml. I lis name appeals on the Hall Pay Roil. 

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS STEUBEN NORTH, Ins <■ nly surviving son, 
was admitted in 1837, and died in 1845 

NATHANIEL NORTON 

Captain \lh New York Regiment. 

I'n 11 n in [743. Died mi 1 he ;i 1 1 iii October, 1 837. 

He was admitted a member ol the New Vork Society in 18 

The following General Order was published on the 9th of < >< tobi r, 1 837 : 

" 1 in- l'i. hi. -ni ol the Society with deep regrel ann lunces to its members thai Captain 

Nathaniel Norton, one of their n pected pi 1 thi War of the Revolution and the mosl 

iged in. ml 1 Hi. New York Stati H tj dep I this life in th iet] fifth ear of his age. 



rHK SOCIETY 01 PHK CINCINNATI 

Mortu hi en f hi countr) i i In thi Provincial Corps in 

i ii. i i. n, it w i ,, . . In the faro c< aw winded by i Hradslreet in the 

\ , ii i i i ivii .in lorn il fi it Oswego '■■ \ On tlv i I ol Novi ml >, 

1 1. wii ippointed and commissioned as i hi ih, ph New York (Contini ital) Regimenl 

1 1. in \ i; Livingston promoted to I ■ on thi 13d ol Vpt II 1 > mil 1 on! Iniu ,1 

in H until 1 1 when tin livi New Vark Ki Imeni L>j > n ohition ol I . « 1 

ulidntcd to l\vo mil ilthough In "i ip| iteil In them, yel sueh wa tlv 1 tiniuti ol Ills 

sen ■ 1 that hi pay and ap] In were continued until the close of the wni 

" lie wa ippolnted by 1 Clinton 1 > omm 11 1 to pi loan ol 11 \ from 

tin Inhabitant ol Lou 1 land I I ol 1 tii » it , mil tin bettei to 11 il this object md (ullill 

Its dutli " 1 of a small t!o\ ncnt vessel culled the ' Suffolk,' 1 1 uisiiuj 

in the Sound l>, i« een Connecticut mil Long Isl md 

Morton did dut> with the corp ,1 \. it thi Hattli ol Monmouth, on the 

Ii ,'i Inn,, 1 v 1 in 1 « 1 ed with 1 ". 11 1 .ii, 1 , In Hi 1 1 ,,i 11. iftcrward 

i, , urn] iullh m In i lii pxpi . .1 1 iull in iin 11 uci up) 

>, ■ ,. 1 .,1 ... itcd his taking part with hi . inn nl In the 

11 '. .. .11 .1 Urnii II mil Stillwatei which 1. -1 to tin rapl 11 ill lei ol thi Hiitl Ii 

\, r ., , Hurgoyni 

■ \ ftci the eloi . of tlv » 11 ol 1 n. 1. ... iv 1. in in 1 , 1 1 , .1 1,, 1 farm on Long Island tint II 
1 . ,. when hi liecann 1 in I'astor of a Hapt 1st church In Connecticut mil subseipirntlj it Herki 
mer In this State, until 1 when hi igi md Infirmities rendered It expedient for him to ret in 
,111,1 |, 1 1. 1 1 .1 ii. life, respected b) ill who knew him In New York Cllj 

■ 'i 11, ,1 1,' in. mi 1 in funeral ol 111 I ci imp mion 

on 1 . ,1 1\ n, .. 1 ii,. 10th lust 1 I) it four o'clock In tlv if tern , from No tya Varlck 

. . •> 1 . . mil they a |Ui ittei to wear th lal badge ol m ning 

1 lionoi ,.1 iii. .1. . ■ 1 . .1 Im nrdei ,.1 

1 , MORGAN l.KWIS 

" CllARI.I Graham 

lii 111,11, 1 11 1, 11 tin thi il .1I1 I' i\ l' . 



CM \KI.I S NUKERK 

\ , 1 , , 

l ) i e tl in 1 ■' ■ ■ ■ 

1 1, w 1 in , , fur liberty at Kingston, I'lsti d ity, N V., in J tine, 

1 , Appointed in Vugust, 1776, '- , in thi jd New Vork 

,in , u tulolph K a , 111,1 In a report of 1 I tihn M01 in 

Scot I anil the field officers, the) certify 1 . ■ in-, being " .1 tjood of) ltd reconi 

nienil him l>i promotion 

I in th,- • mi ,.i November, 1 6, hi was pi omoted t.' he ol the 

1 n lull 1 tunpanj >'i the id New Vork Regimenl Continental Infantrj > 

\ .111 l 'ot ll, null's. 

In Octobei 1 5, lie « tts chosen ( uit, and A In |an 

nary, 1 So, serving 1 such until deranged by the act of Conjj msolidating 

tlu' New York I im '"i 1 he 1 sl >>i lanuui \ , 1 .1 



III'. It'll I 



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\i ii .1 o| iii. ■..•. .11 lii cttlcd in Vlh in-, , hi. I mi. i tin ili nth "i iv i. i 

Schuyler, Jr., tin eldcHl ifrand f the firnl Mayor ol thai place, in, I in 

. i. |i - .-. , (Ict'tniili I in in' , liul died, leaving no Inkui urvi inn j Hi 

adopted i nly nc|)hcw called aflei him, whom hi miuli hi hcii 1 1 

tppi H .-n iii. 1 1 1 1 1 I'a j i ! . . 1 1 

DANIEL PARKKR, |R. 

(,i/l,iiii 1 1, ill, ii, ml \(i hli/.'.it \l,i ,t, /in.. II. 

Horn ut IIohI ii 1761 1 ii. . 1 in \i 1 , 1 ] .,i. ii .1. in, m iihh 

Appointed Second I iatttiutnt in (iridic] Ki [ii I ol .1 icl on 

ill \i iilli'i v, "ii 1 1 1' lyth -I May, 1775, and foil jf hi in ll al tin Uattli ol 

Hunk ei 1 1 1 1 1 with h in 1 her, Klin (who ■ • uf tcr ward eoni 1 1 

/ 1, ill, 11, 1 11 1 in I 'oloih I ' 1 Hi' I \ 1 I ill. 1 ■, , .111. 1 |)CI llll i" 1 1 II 1 1 I" 1 ■ - 1 Hi. 

Mi iichiiHettH Stuti ... 1. 1 1 Vftcr it win poralcd under the command 

ni ( '.•/."'. ,' 1 1. in , 1 mi 1 1 in ii i'ii ii .in ulion for tin ir, 

on tin 1 1 . .1 1 1 .ii,,. .1 iii. ,.11.11 1 ii.niiiiMii.il ( liirpH ol \ nil lei') 

l |. .lui 1 1 in. w hen hi 'a 1 promoted f.itutenttiit ol t uptiiin 11 mil 

I nmpany, and 1 1 .hi iii 1 1 ill hi 1 1 . 1 tl) 1 1. w.i . - < 1 > 1 ted tin 

Ctf'titni I i.itiiihint ol it, mil erved 11 uch until thi 1 Lh of Octohci ... 

I I - 1 ■ i" 1. 'I in 1 , ,'i, .iii. 1 1 ' ici and, iii* in" graduated nl 

11 iin 1 , ; ; 1 hi.' iii .1 1 ,ai in ■■ 1 1 in, ilcm until he died 

Hin widow Call , ri iding al Newark, N [,, rci eived aid 1 In 

\ ' 'I I I I in. I Hill ll I .11 , 1 

iii 1 I h 1 tit . 1 iii- brother, Kdward I'arkcr, made an npplicul to In 

admit Led in tin 11 luted fn mi |ai 1 I., on tin 18th ol c| 

I" 1 , 1 8 1 a, bul which dm 1 ppcai i" ha\ c b itcrtaincd 



( 1 1 \Kl.l.s PARSONS 

1 '■!/•/, 1111 1 , Sew York A\ Utitnt, 

Horn at Norlhamplon, Mn 17th ol iepteinbcr, 174a Died al Will 

town, >i.i , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 . . 1 \ 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 . 1 1 

He entered tl In 1776 11 m Onl rant in tin ml /orl 

1 ! ■ ■ hi 1 . '■. in 1 1 1 1 1 1 



I'll . ' liu 1 - 1. '. . ' -I 11 11 1 , ... ii,,. , 1,. 

Immili nl 1 . , .1 , 1 

■ ■' ■ • '..,.. ll ... 1 , 1 ,, 1 

In I - ' . I , , ■ 1., 1 . 1 H,. , 



I III SOCIETY 01 I Ml CINCINNATI, 

Appointed .' il the Fourth Company on the 7th ol October, 177c, 

,uul chosen, on the 1st of September, 1778, as its Captain- Lieutenant. Pro- 
moted 1 of the Sixth Company on the 26th ol March, 1770, and served 
as such until mustered out ol service in 1 

He was stationed with his company .11 Ticonderoga, and up the Mohawk al 
Fort Schuyler, during the Summer of 1780; participated in the sufferings ol 
(In- troops at Valley Forge; wounded in the Battle ol Monmouth, and finally 
present at the Surrender ol Cornwallis at Yorktown. 

He married I ucy Baldwin, by whom he had sis sons and one daughter 
Mrs. |ohn \nderson\ His name appears on the Hall l'a\ Roll, 

II EN RY PA WLIN G 

\ .. Yo \ < , 

I lied in Vugust, 1825. 

He was an ■ ■• in Marbletown, Ulstet County, and commissioned 

s of the Fifth Company of the 2d Regiment, New York Conti 

nental Infantry < [ames Clinton on the 26th of February, 1776, 

Appointed / . on the -msi ol November, 1771'. in the 5th Now York 

Regiment I Dtt Bois. 

I'aki ner, at the capture ol Fort Montgomery, on the 6th ol October, 

1777. Promoted, after his exchange, Captain the regiment being then com- 
manded by Colo \ tn Cortlandt ow the 23d ol |une, 1778 ami remained in 
its service until honorably discharged in 1 

In 179S he represented Montgomery County in the New York State I > 
latino. His name appears on th< Hall Pay Roll, 

SAMUEL rREDWELL PELL 

Horn ow the 26th of July, 1755, al the Mann of Pelham, Died there, 
unmarried, on the 19th ol December, 1786. 

It is claimed thai the first proprietoi ol that large estate purchased from the 
Indians, known as the Manor of Pelham, was a '' gentleman of the bedchamber 
aw<\ a 1 ol Charles 1.," .\\m\ foreseeing the coming political complications 

in the old country, invested in lands in tin' N«« World as early as 1654 
Sending his nephew, |ohn Pell, to settle thereon, who, losing Ins life by drown 
ing in Long Island Sound, off City Island, was succeeded by his son rhomas 



I II I OCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, _• 7 1 

Pell, who married the Indian squaw "Anna." Their sun Philip had a son 
Philip, who was the father ol Captain Samuel T. Pell, and the patriot Deputy 
fudge Xdvocate Philip Pell, Jr." 1 

\i the agi "i twi ntj he applied foi .1 commissi! the army, and on the 

.•xi 1 1 ol fune, 1 7 75, was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the |ili Regiment, 
New York Continental Infantry Colonel fames Holmes. His commission was 
handed him on the 13th ol July bj Gouverneur Morris, and on the nth ol 
lugusl another was forwarded to him with rank as Lieutenant, both of which 
are now preserved among the State papers. 

Appointed on the sis! of November, 1776, Captain in the 2d New Vork 

Regimen! Colonel Van Cortlandt's he served with it, aftei tin reducl 1 

the Ni w \ ork Quota, until finally honorably disi harged thi 1 n , 

Aftei the wai hi 1 ttled on his portion ol the Manor ol Pelham, devoting 
himsell to Ins farm and the raising ol blooded stock, until his dei ea < , 1 ausi d 

li\ injuries susti id by the fall ol ins horse. 1 1 is name appears on the I l.ili 

Pay Roll. 

ROBERT PEMBERTON 

< 'aptain, Spencet 's Regiment, Vew /< / wy. 

Died in 1788. 

Appointed Lieutenant in Colonel Oliver Spencer's New ferse} Regimenl on 
the 1 |ili ol fune, 1777, .11111 Adjutant on the i<>tli ol October following. Pro 

moted i" be ( 'aptain in the sami on the isl ol f; ary, ■ 77'^, and si rving until 

1 he close ol t he war. 

He appears to have paid one month's pay into the fund of the New Jersey 
S01 iety. < )n the s'l' of Inly, 17^5, he was elected Secretary of the New Vork 
State Sim iety, whii h offii e he held during the inauguration ol the firsl honorary 
members, on the 4th ol [uly, 1786, and until his decease. f His name appears 
on the Hall Pay Roll. 



NATHANIEL PENDLETON 

Staff rank oj Captain^ Ude-detCamp< 

Born in Virginia. Died in \<u Vork on 1 he t isl ■ »i October, i : I \ i 

I ir was .in original member <»i tin- Virginia State Society. In 179^ '"' 

II pro ted the 1 ! <" ■ for in ibord on mad by Get at McDougall e i ■ ] u ' ■■ kmun 

1 1 I- jard to ihi t r of I opus on I h< (Bt oi I uni , 1777. 

| ic< at . i' 1. ■ 



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N OB I 111 CINCINNATI. 



moved to New York City, meeting with the Societ} in this State in 1798, and 
becoming an active member of its Standing Committee in the following year. 

Entering the army in 1775 from Virginia, he served until appointed Lieu- 
tenant m Colonel Moses Rawling's Maryland Regiment, which, after the Battle 
of Long Island, retreated to Fort Washington, where it engaged Sit William 
Howe's forces on the r 6th oi November, 1 77(1. ami, with a three-gun battery, 
kept in check the column of General Knyphausen's Hessians, until compelled 
to fall back, when h^ was taken prisoner. Exchanged at Elizabeth, N. I , on 
the 1 Nth oi 1 1. ti iber, 1 78 3. 

Upon his release he was appointed Aide-de-Camp on the stall oi Gonial 
Greene, with rank of Captain, and accompanied him in the Southern Campaign, 

lie received the thanks oi Congress for gallantry at Eutaw Springs on the 
8th of September, 1781. 

He married Susan Bard, by whom he had four sons ami one daughter 
(Mrs. An hibahl Rogers). 

After the war hi' settled in New York, where he became a prominent lawyer, 
a judge, and subsequently, in 1816 17, represented Dutchess County— when 
his country seal was — in the New York Legislature. While stationed at 
Charleston he met with the State Society of South Carolina. Mis name 
appears on the 1 [all Pay Roll. 

EDM1 \l» 11. PEND1 ETON, his eldest son. was elected a member by 
the New York State Society in [823, but never signed the Institution, lie 
married Fanny [ones, of New York, dying without issue 

GEORGE HUNT PENDLETON, Ins eldest grandson, and son of the 
statesman and soldier of the second war for independence i< olonel Nathaniel 
Greene Pendleton, ol Ohio), was elected to membership by this State Societ) 
on the 5th oi July, [886, He was appointed, by President Cleveland, United 
States Minister to Germany, residing at the Court of Berlin, 



WILLIAM PETERS 

Ensign 2d New York Regiment. 

Appointed, on the 29th oi June, [781, Ensign oi the Eighth Company of 
the 2d New York Regiment, Continental Infantry ColonelVan Cortlandt - 

and served until finally discharged, with his regiment, in 17S.'. 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



I HI iOCIE I \ OF Mil CINCINN 273 

RICHARD PLATT 

Si, in rank oj Wajor, Aide-de Camp. 

Horn in 1 7 5 . | . Died on the 3d of March, 1830. 

Hi-, greal grandfather, Epenetus Piatt, settled al Huntington, I.. I., in 
1672, and was imprisoned fur resistance to the oppression of Si/ Edmund 
\niii.r in [681, 111- represented Suffolk County in the Colonial General 
Assembly from 1 7 _- ^ to 17.57. Some of his descendants went to Dutchess 
County, and subsequently to their patent of twent) thousand acres of land on 
Lake Champlain, now Plattsburgh, N. Y. Jonas Piatt, who died in 1775, at 
thi agi ol fort) four, lefl his ion Richard to acl for himself in those troubled 
times, His mother, Temperance, was thi granddaughter of Richard Smith, 

km iw 11 as " Bull Sinil h." 

Ai twenty-oni y< n ol age lie- was settled on hi farm al Smithfield, L. I., 
and when the British aggressions alarmed the Colonists into organizing for 

hum u,i I protei tion 01 resisl :, In- signed one of the earlier de< larations as an 

Associate) for Suffolk County on the 8th "I May, 1775. On the 28th of June 
following he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant \\\ ('<>l<>n,l McDougall's 

Regiment, and ac panied the arms which in that year invaded Canada, 

under the command "i General Schuyler, lie was al the 1 apture of St. Johns, 
Montreal, and gallantly foughl with (,',■//,■/,// Montgomery in the unfortunate 
attack on Quebec, and, acting as Adjutant-General, was entrusted with the 
pi ■ 1 ..ir.it ions Tea- storming the city. 

Promoted Lieutenant in Colonel Van Schaick's Regiment,* ami on the 21st 
ot November, 177''. < 'aptain of the Fifth Compan) ol the 2d Now York Regi- 
ment < 'olonel Van ( lortlandt's. 

General McDougall subsequently appointed him one of his Aides, with the 
rank oi Major, and as surh he rendered important assistance in the retreat ol 
the t roo ] is from Long Island and in their march to White Plains. 

Appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Main Vrmj 1>\ General 
Orders, dated lotowa, 24th of October, 17.S0, and accompanied the expedition 
to Virginia, being present at the' surrender of Lord Cornwallis a) Vorktown on 
the 2 ist ot October, 1781. He 1 on tinned in the arm) until the close ol thi wai 

President Duer, ol Columbia College, in his "Reminiscences of an Old 

Ni w Yorker," gives the following at it of the t elebration of the adoption ol 

the new ( institution ol the State : 

" A day 1 "i ili' purpc 1 having been more than onci fixed upon, and po tponcd, in the li<>]>< 
that the Convention of the State — then 11 1 Poughk. psii ould to the ' nion, 

page i 



274 I"H] SOCII IN OF THE ( INCINN \ M. 

thi Committee ol Arrangements, ol whom Colonel Richard Piatt was Chairman, found it impos- 
sible any longi i to oppose the patriotic ardor of their constituents, and accordingly appointed the 
23d of July, I7SS, for the celebration. The ratification of the new Constitution bj New York, 
though considered eventually certain, was not, from the opposition it encountered in the State 
Convention, then thought to be immediate, and the accession to it b) that body within three 
da) after the celebration was in a measure ascribed to the universal enthusiasm in its favor 
manifested on that occasion." 

This was one of New York's most brilliant pageants, and in it the original 
"Cincinnati" were everywhere prominent. Major Piatt rode ahead as the 
Grand Marshal of the day. Colonel Morgan Lewis, Major Nicholas Fish, 
A.quila Giles, James Fairlie, William Popham and Abijah Hammond were his 
'/,•/ Anthony Walton White, in his effective uniform of the Con- 
tinental Cavalry, on a white charger, attended by two Oriental grooms, carrying 
the arms of the United States. Major L'Enfant, who conceived the design of 
the National Capitol at W ishington, planned the decorations for the oc< asion. 

Major Piatt was elected Treasurer of the New York State Society in 17SS, 
and appointed Commissary-Ge neral by the State during the War of 1812. His 
name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



WILLIAM POP H A M 

Staff rank of Captain, Aide-de-Catnp. 

Horn on the totli of September, 1752, in Count) Cork, Ireland. Died in 
New York in September, 1847. 

At nine years of age his parents brought him to this country, and having 
settled at Newark, New Jersey, educated him for the ministry, but current 
events soon changed this intended career for him. 

At the commencement of the Revolution he entered the service as a Lieu- 
tenant of a company of Minute Men in a New York regiment - before the 
formal organization of the regiments for the war — which it is claimed he had 
raised. 

In the Battle of Long Island he captured, with a detachment of troops 
under his command, eighteen of the British, including a Captain Rugg, and 
brought them into headquarters in New York City with tin- retreat, tor which 
he was complimented by "His Excellency," General Washington, at the 
time. 

General James Clinton appointed him on his Stall, .1- one of lus Aides while 
stationed in the Highlands of the Hudson in 1777, and afterwards, in 177.), lie 
accompanied him on Sullivan's Expedition. Subsequently he was transferred 
10 the St.ni of Baron Steuben, with the rank of Captain. 




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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 275 

lie continued in the service to the end of the war, having participated in 
the action at White Plains and the Battle of Brandywine. 

He married Mary, the daughter of Judge Richard Morris, and his wife's 
farm at Scarsdale, Westchester County, N. Y., became his residence in 17X7, 
where he lived to be ninety-five years of age, respected anil beloved by all 
who knew him. 

For many years he held an important civil office connected with our Courts 
of Justice, anil on the 4th of July, 1S44,* was elected the President of this 
Society, which position he held until his decease. At a triennial meeting in the 
same year, held in Philadelphia, he was chosen President-General. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM SHERBROOK POPHAM, his eldest surviving sou, sue. ceded 
him in the Society in [848. Chosen Secretary in i860, and Vice-President in 
1862, which office he retained until his decease, on the iXth of June, 1 885, in his 
ninety-third year.f 

JOHN PRAY 

Captain 1 2/// Massachusetts Regiment. 

Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Died in New York City in Septem- 
ber, 1812. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society, and was trans 
ferred, on the 4th of Jul), 1799, to the New York, upon the payment of one- 
month's pay forty dollars. 

lie first joined the army at Lexington, and was commissioned Ensign in 
Colonel Phinney's Regiment on the 1 st of April, 177C Appointed, on the 1 ll 
of September, 1 7 7 .s, a Lieutenant in Colonel Bigelow's 151I1 Massachusetts 
Regiment, and served with it in General Sullivan's Rhode Island Campaign 
Commissioned Captain, on the 5th of July, 1779, in the [2th Massachusetts 
Regiment — Colonel Ebenezer Sprout. 

lie was in charge of the block House at Dobb's Ferry, X. Y., on the 11th 
of March, 1781, as the Water Guard. Present at the battle ol White Plains, 
and with the army while encamping for the Winter at Valley Forge. 

He married Jane Mesier, by whom he had one son and two daughters — 
Mrs. 1 1 d 111 I). Stagg and Mrs. Allen C. Lee. His name appears on the Half 
Pay Roll. I 



* See ./ <>/.-, page 116. 
+ See ante i page 146. 

X His grandson, William Pray Lee, was admitted in i860, under the resolution of 1S57. ;i^ a life membi 
died without male i^sur in 1872. 



-7 fl , 1 III SOCIETY Of I III CINCINNATI. 

THEODORE STAGG, his grandson, was elected in 1858, but failed to 
sisjn tlu- Roll. 



WILLIAM PRICE 

Lieutenant $d Artillei 1, Massachusetts. 

Died .a West Point in July, 1790. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Conti- 
nental Artillery, on the i st of May, 1776, and continued with it on its reorgani- 
zation for the war as the 3d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel 
John Crane's— on the 1st of January, 1777. Promoted to be Lieutenant in the 
same on the i.Hh ol September, 177S. Retained in the service on the reduc- 
tion of his regiment, in Captain Thomas Vose's Company, on the 12th of June, 
[783, pursuant to the orders of his Excellency, General Washington, promul- 
gated at Army Headquarters, Newburgh, X. Y., dated 2d of June, 1783. 

Appointed Deputy-Commissary of Ordinance and Military Stores at West 
Point on the 1st ot January. 1784, upon the discharge of the remainder of his 
regiment, ami continued m this position until relieved by Captain George 
Fleming, on the 22d of March, [787. 

IK' signed the Massachusetts Roll, with his regiment at the Cantonments 
on the Hudson, and his one month's pay was paid over to that fund by the 
Pa} master-General. 

Residing in this State, he met with and signed the roll of the New York 
S01 iet) His name appears on (he Half-Pay Roll. 



AUNER PRIOR 

Surgeon's Mate 2,/ New York Regiment. 

Appointed Surgeon's Mate of the 4th Regiment, New York Continental 
Infantry Colonel Henry I!. Livingston's — and transferred to the 2d Regiment, 
New York Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Cortland! 's -on the 1st of Janu- 
ary, 1881. Honorably discharged the service on the 3d of November, 1783. 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll.* 



1 'n 'In Half-Pay Roll appears another Abncr Prior. Ma iot "l Connecticul Regiment. 



I n I SOCIETY 01 I III CINCIN \ ATI. 277 

THOMAS RANDALL 

Captain $d Artillery, Massachusetts. 

Died in New York in January, [811. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society, but <>n t he 4th of 
July, iSoj, met with the New York State Society and subscribed Ins name to 
its Roll. 

At the outbreak of the war he entered the service, on the 24th of April, 
1775, '" the artillery, at the Siege of Boston, where he resided. Commissioned 
Lieutenant, in Knox's Artillery, on the 1st of January, 1776, and promoted to 
be Captain-Lieutenant of it in the same year. Resinned on the 1st of May, 
1779, from his regiment, with the rank of Captain, it being then the 3d Artillery 
— ColoiuP Crane's. 

He was in the Battle of Long Island on the 27th of August, 1776. Taken 
prisoner on the 22d of September, 1777, at Paoli, while endeavoring to bring 
off his guns, when Wayne was surprised by General Gray. Wounded and left 
for dead on the field at Germantown, 

After the war he became Captain of a New York merchant ship, anil the 
partner of Major Samuel Shaw, of Boston, in the Canton trade. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JACOB REED, Jr. 

Captain New York Artillery. 

Horn in New York City on the 23d of April, 1 755. Died on the ;ist of 
May, (838, unmarried. 

He was the eldest son of Jacob Reed, of Switzerland, and Jam' Ellsworth, 
willow of John Minthorne ami great-granddaughter of Wolferl Webber, who 
owned the Collect in New York City in [649, by grant from Governor Peter 
Stuyvesant. 

With Ins nephews, Captain John and Daniel Wahlron, he assisted Lieutenant- 
Colonel Marinus Willett in removing the royal arms from the New York City 
Hall. 

The State archives mention him as follows : 

" Jacob Reed, Jr., is desirous of entering the service "I his countrj Would bi particularly 
obligi 1 i" « olon, ! Brasher in interesting fur him, as he thinks himself capable. Would wish foi 
a Lieutenancy, but rattier than fail would accept a Second", 6th February, 1 7 7< >. ' ' 



.'7' s nil SOCIETY 01 Mil CINCINNATI. 

Under this application lie was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in Captain 
Bauman's Artillery Company, on the 16th of April, 1 7 7 * ». .mil was attached to 
icl Knox's Artillery Regiment. 

On the 1st of February, 1777, he was promoted to Captain-Lieutenant in 
Walker's Company in Colonel Lamb's 2d New York Regiment, Continental 
Corps ol Artillery, and promoted, on the 23d ol March, [7S1, to be Captain in 
ame. He resigned from the service on the 22d of March. 1782. 

He visited Europe .1 few years after peace was declared, and after his 
return lived in New York City in retirement, respected and beloved by all who 
knew him. He lies buried in Trinit) Cemetery in New York City. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JOHN REED 

Lieutenant New York Artillery 

born on the 91I1 ol \u^ust, 1759. Hied unmarried, in September, 1797. 

He appears to have been an Associator \n Beekman's Precinct, Dutchess 
County, in July, 1775. - 1IU ' t0 ' iave enlisted as a private in Captain Van Zandt's 
Company oi Colonel Lasher's Regiment, on the 5th ol November, 1776. His 
brother. Captain Jacob Reed, Jr., applied lor a vacant Lieutenancy in his own 
regiment for him, by a communication dated Artillery Park, near New Windsor, 
on the 17th of December, 1780. 

Appointed Lieutenant ol the 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery — 
/,/ Lamb's— on the 28th of June, 1781. 

Honorabl) discharged the service with a portion of his regiment, on the 1st 
ol January, 17S4 His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JOHN R. B. RODGERS 

Surgeon 31/ Pennsylvania Regiment, 

bom m 175S. Died on the 29th of" January, 1833. 

lie was a member of the Pennsylvania Society, and was transferred to Ne\i 
York m 1 So 1 . 

Appointed, on the 1st of October, 1779, Surgeon of the 1st Regiment, Penn- 
11a Continental Infantry — Colonel James Chambers and subsequently to 
Colonel Daniel Broadhead's. Transferred, on the 1st ol January, 1783, to the 
3d Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Infantry — Colonel Richard butler's 



i in socn n 11 ( i\c i \ \ \ ii. 2-j() 

on the nihil linn of the Pennsylvania Line, lie was on duty both as a Gar- 
rison Surgeon and in the General Hospital. 

Honorably discharged the service, with his regiment, on the 3d of Novem- 
ber, 1783. 

He died at his residence in New York Ciiy in the seventy-fifth year of his 
age, beloved and esteemed in the army for his talents and humanity, and after- 
wards as an active and useful member of society. IIis name appears on the 
Half-Pay Roll. 

JOHN KEARNEY RODGERS, his eldest son, was admitted by the New 

York State Society in [833, and died in November, [851. 

JOHN KEARNEY RODGERS, his grandson, eldest son of the last, was 

admitted in 1852. 



JEDEDIAH ROGERS 

Captain 2d Dragoons , Connecticut. 

Originally he was a member of the Connecticul Society and resided at 
Norwalk, but in 1797 he associated with the New York Stale Society. 

He appears to have been appointed /./rut, ■nan! of the 5th Connecticut Regi- 
ment on the 1 2th of July, 1777 — Colonel Philip Bradley's— and subsequently 
transferred to the 2d Dragoons (of Connecticut) — Colonel Elisha Sheldon's — 
and promoted at the end of the war to be Captain, tinder the act of Congress. 
His name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



WILIIELMUS RYCKMAN 

Lieutenant 1st New York Regiment. 

Appointed Ensign of Captain Benjamin Hicks Fifth Company in the isi 
New York Regiment — ColonelVan Schaick's — on the 21st of November, 1776, 
and also served with that rank in Captain Nicholas Van Rensselaer's Company 
in 17X0. Promoted to be Lieutenant of Captain Ten Broeck's Company on the 
5th of April, 1781, and served until honorably discharged the service in 17.S2. 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



1 III SOCIETY Ol I III > IN* INN VII. 

fOHN S W rFORD 

s ■ • \ 

; SoS 

He was admitted by the New Vork Societ) in i 

On the ist ol \ugus he headed the list ol .<>> ■ ■ foi ; 

pendenct Southampto ilk County, and on the 13th of the next month 

was appointed I \ itli Company of the id Battalion of the Suffolk 

County Minute Men, undei - D vid Mulford, and w.is chosen, on the 

6th ol June ol ( Wi iam Malcom's Regiment, in 

lohn Morin Scott's Brigade. Upon the recommendation of 
el, on ilu' 5th 1 \ inber, he applied for .1 commission in tin 
tinental Line, and vv.ts commissioned a I 1 < Olivei Spencer's 

(additional) l icntal Regiment, with which he served until honorably dis 
charged. 

lie married Susan Weller, and died, leaving but one child, Elizabeth, who 
lie the wife ol William V. Davis, ol New Vork < j ivho was a 
in the Wai ot 1 s i 1, ihs name appears on the Hall l'av Roll, 

DIRCK SCHin LER 

\ . ; 

Bom on tlio -- . > 1 1 1 . \ ., uber, 1 6i, .it Ubanj Died unmarried. 

He was the third son ol S II. inn. inns Schuyler, and .1 grandson ol 

Nicholas Schuyler, who resided up the Mohawk Valley, His elder brothel 
Nicholas was the s Moses ll.ivn's .-,1 Canadian Regiment, 

and s ' th it, the Institution written on parchment, which is now 

the possession ol the General S 

Appointed, on the a ist of November, 1, Seventh Coni| 

of the id New Vork Regiment, Continental Infantrj . \ an Cortlandt's 

upon the ihment of the Now Vork quota, and served until honorably 

discharged. His name appears on the Hall I'.iv Roll 

PHILIP SCHUYLER 

n -it Albany on the sad of November, 17.;,;. Died there on the iSth of 

Novi 







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THE SOCIETY Of THE CINCINNATI. 281 

"Amongthe patriots of the American Revolution who asserted the rights 
of their country in council, and equally vindicated its cause in the field, the 
name of Philip Schuyler stands preeminent. In acuteness of intellect, pro- 
found thought, indefatigable activity, exhaustless energy, pure patriotism, and 

persevering and intrepid public efforts, he had no superior; and it is to be 
regretted that the limits assigned to each portion of biography in the present 
work, will permit only a rapid sketch of his distinguished services." 

These are Chancellor Kent's opening words in t h L - sketch of Philip Schuyler he so care- 
fully prepared, with the most abundant material, for the " National Portrait <'.all< rj <•! Distin- 
guished Americans," and which is condensed and introduced lure as most suitably adapted to 
impartially portray the character ami merits of one so largelj identified with the creation and 
early history of the United Slates. 

The Saratoga Estate, of which Burgoyne's army in 1777 made such sad 
havoc, the Cnneral inherited from his grandfather, Captain Johannes Schuyler, a 
son of Philip Pieterse Van Schuyler, who in 1650, at twenty years of age, came 
to America from Amsterdam, and married Margaretta, the daughter of Brant 
Arentse Van Slcehtenhorst, the Director General of the Manor of Rensselaei 
wyck. 

Deprived of his father while young, he was indebted to his mother, Cornelia 
Van Cortlandt, a lady of Strong and cultivated mind, for his early education, 
and those habits of business and that unshaken probity which never forsook 
him. At the age ol sixteen he was a martyr to an hereditary gout, which, 
although confining him, while at school at New Rochelle, to his room for 
nearly a year, he was still able to prosecute his studies anil acquire the French 
language. His favorite studies were mathematics and the Other exact sciences, 
which enabled him in after life to display unusual skill as a civil and military 
engineer. 

He entered the army when the French war broke out in 1755, and com- 
manded a company in the New Vork levies, which attended Sir William 
Johnson to Fort Edward and Lake George. 

In 1758, his talents and activity attracted the attention ol Lord Viscount 
Howe, who, commanding at Albany the first Division of the British Arm) 
(of four thousand men), then preparing for an expedition to Canada, had the 
disi ernment to select young Schuyler for the Commissary 1 lepartment. H hen 
it was suggested to him that he was confiding in loo young a man for so 
important a service, he declared that "he relied on the practical knowledge 
a >hl activity of Schuyler, and was convinced that he would be enabled to surmount 
all obstacles." 

The army, under the command of General Abercrombie, arrived at the 
north end of Lake George early in July, and when Lord Howe fell, in ,1 conflict 



282 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

with the French advanced guard, Schuyler was directed to cause the body of 
that lamented young nobleman to be conveyed to Albany and buried there, 
with appropriate honors. 

He was one of the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly in 
1764 to manage the controversy on the part of New York, respecting the New 
Hampshire Grants. In 1768 he was elected a member of the General Assem- 
bly of Albany, and until the Colonial Legislature, in April, 1775, terminated its 
existence forever. 

2> Sjc 2jc :j£ 9jC ?P -B 

The great scenes of the Revolution were now unfolding, and the eyes of his 
fellow-citizens were constantly turned to him, as one in whom their highest 
hopes were placed. He was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress 
which assembled in May, 1775, and had scarcely taken his seat in that assembly 
when he was appointed, on the 19th of June, one of the three Major-Generals 
of the ( 'ontinental Army. 

On the 25th of June he was charged by Washington with the command of 
the army in the Province of New York, and in his first general orders enjoined 
the troops, that — 

" In contending for liberty, they abhor licentiousness ; in resisting the misrule of tyrants, 
they will support government honestly administered." 

He was directed by Congress, on the 1st of July, 1775, to repair the forts at 
Ticonderoga ami Crown Point, and make preparations to secure the command 
of the lake, and, if practicable and expedient, to take possession of St. Johns, 
Montreal and Quebec. 

In August, with four regiments under the command of Brigadier-General 
Richard Montgomery, he moved down the lake from Ticonderoga. When 
he was taken down with a fever, and carried in a bateau to the Isle Au Noix, 
where he established his headquarters on the 8th of September, but was obliged, 
after ten days, to return and leave the expedition in the command of Mont- 
gomery. 

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Supplying the Canadian army with recruits, provisions, clothing, arms and 
money was beyond his power. He applied for leave to retire. His application 
was not listened to, but on the 30th of November Congress resolved — 

"That his conduct, attention and perseverance merited the thanks of the united Colonies. 
That he should not insist on a measure which would deprive America of his zeal and abilities, and 
n»b him of the honor of completing the glorious work which he had so happily and successfully 
begun." 

Washington, who maintained a constant correspondence with him, expressed 
the same regret in his letters of the 5th and 24th of December, 1775, desiring 
both him and Montgomery 



I HE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

" To lay aside all such thoughts of retirement, alike injurious to themselves and excessively 
so to the country. They had not a difficulty to contend with that he had not in an eminent 

degree experienced." 

General Schuyler determined to continue in the service, and especially, as 

he said — 

" After the fall of his friend Montgomery, who had given him so many proofs of the g 
ness of his heart, and who, as he greatly fell in his country's cause, was more to be envied than 
lamented." 

The distressed condition of the Northern Army in the Spring of 1776 was 
unparalleled in the history of the Revolution. 

He was required to cause the St. Lawrence, above and below Quebec, to 
be explored; to fill up blank commissions for the Canada regiments, in his 
discretion ; to establish an accountability for the waste of the public supplies, 
and to put Ticonderoga in a defensible condition. After the death of Mont- 
gomery the command devolved on Brigadier-General David Wooster. The 
most alarming, and next to the want of provisions the most distressing defi- 
ciency, was in muskets, ammunition and cannon. The call was so incessant 
for specie that General Schuyler was obliged to pay out, on his own personal 
security, ,£2,100 in. gold and silver for the service. Nothing shows more 
strikingly the want they endured in the army than the fact that even Wash- 
ington, in his camp at Cambridge, applied to Schuyler for assistance : 

" Your letters and mine seem echoes to each other, enumerating our mutual difficulties." 

Great apprehension was entertained for the disaffected inhabitants up the 
Mohawk, under the influence of Sir John Johnson, and Congress directed him 
" To cause the Tories in that quarter to be disarmed, and their leaders secured." 

He accordingly marched, in the month of January, and executed the sen ice 
with such discretion as to receive the special approbation of Congress. 

On the 17th of February, 1776, Major-General Charles I.e.- was appointed 
to the command of the Northern Army, and Schuyler was to take his pla< 1 a1 
New York. This alteration was made (as the President of Congress assured 
him) from the conviction that his health was not equal to a Winter's campaign 
in the severe climate of Canada. But the wants of tin- Northern Department 
were so urgent, that he was obliged to continue his headquarters at Albany, and 
which was so established by resolution of Congress, on the 6th of March. 1776. 

General Lee being sent to the South, Major- General John Thomas was. on 
the 6th of March, appointed to the command in Canada, with a leli.in 
Congress declared — 

"On the efforts of General Schuyler i"t perfecting the work so conspicuously begun and so 

well directed, under his orders, the last campaign." 



•S i rHE SOCIETY 01 I'HE CINCINNATI, 

Between the 18th of April anil the nth ol July, G Schuylei was at 

Fort Geo ge, Piconderoga and Crown Point, active in directing and stimulat- 
ing efforts io relieve them, 

i >n the id ol I une nftei the d< nth * of G i Phomas, ■' 

John Sullivan i I to the command, when the distress and disc 

tion ol the arm) had arrived at the utmost height, All hopes ol Canada were 
none, ,unl no alternative was left but to make the safesl and most expeditious 
retreat C i Sullivan left with onl) two thousand five hundred and thirt) 
three men, and on I |uly reached Crown Point, where he met i 

Horatio Gates, who, though a junioi officer, was appointed to the command, 
and Sullivan retired from the Department in disgust. ' 

The expedition to Canada having thus terminated, the next object ol 

Schuyler's attention was to secure the forts on the lakes, On the 1 \\\\ ol June 

he had been required by Congress 

" I'o hold a treaty with the Six Nations ■ •! Indians ; to fortif) Port Stanwix ; to open .1 
military road from Korl l',l« '• . i>' establish .1 <.m.\\ look at S 

borough ; to equip .1 tlotilia on I ake (.'hamplain, ami t,' fortify Crown Point or Mount 
nee, at his discretion, " 

Crown Point was abandoned by the unanimous advice of a council of Ins 
officers as not tenable with thru present force. Phe act was at tirst inconsid 
erately censured, but ins reasons for the measure satisfied the mind ol Wash 
ington. A flotilla of sixteen vessels was equipped nee on th< 

the lattei end ol August, and he assigned the command of it to 1 
Benedict Arnold, which was, on the 16th ol October, b) .1 much superioi and 
bettei manned Rnglish squadron, after .1 brave and una\ resistance, 

Phis put .in end to the campaign, and the garrison -it 
sting of nine thousand men, was left by G ylei in 

the command ol Gates, 

In Vugust he made the treaty, >'n the I ppei Mohawk, with the Six Indian 
N « hi* h was ol the utmost importance the maintenance ol one thousand 

eight hundred savages Phe Indians were induct r, and 

Congress afterwards gave their approbation to the transaction 

On the 14th ol September, 1776, he tendered once more to Congress his 

commission, when the) 

" Resolved that they could ">>i consent 1,, accept lii-- resignation in the then situation ol 
that they bore theii willing testimony to his mil th.u mo 

ions i'n his eharaetei h i) 

lie submitted to Congress .1 plan of operations for the ensuing year, both 
at the North anil on the Hudson, and informed 1 Washington, on the 



of Mas 



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I ill V OK THK CINCIN VTI, 

loth ol infill 1777, thai the ensuing campaign would require al Ticon 

1 1 ten thousand nun, bi ides two thousand men f 01 thi everal point! ol 

''.niiriunM.il , and t*'orl Schuylei on the Mohawk. 

•J* V V n* v "r •p 

He now took hi eat in Congn a a delegate from New York, and at hi 

requi I 1 ttei ol inquirj was instituted to 1 amini into I ilitary 

■ duct, 11m . mi, 1. n n tfforded wa prompl and complete, and by the 

n "i in of Congn ol the i2d ol Maj In wa din 1 ti 'I 

"l 1 11 1 of tin Northern Department of New fork, ; of Albany, 

1 Icroy I'orl ' : : r depend cli 

During the inti il of thi 1 wo months thai hi was in Philadelphia, hi 
in. nil,' command on the Delaware, directing fortifications and forwarding 
troops and pro\ 1 to the Commandei in-< hiei 

liiii the storm 1 hal .■. 1 gatherin thi frontiers ol his nal iv< itati oon 

, ii 'I ill In . ii 1. ui inn, .mil he res id his command with ardoi and 1 1 foi 

* # * i * * 

General Schuylei I' n Si. ( 'lair in command . 1 1 Ticonderoga, directed him 

to i"i 1 ii v Mi 1 1 1 1' I' i" ndi in ' , mi l informed Con ;ri 1 n 1 in- 1 1 1 1 1 of [uni 

"I hal . .1 ' 1 . ■ ,,, 1 ,,1 1 , , ,,., 1 ,„, ,,f || M _. 

I "ii > 'i ■ ind incompetent to mainti i and thai he I 'I the Department in the 

1 con! 

Application was made to the Eastern Stati to hasten on theii troops, as 
thi garrison al 1 dcroga < 1 1 < I nol then I two thousand two hundred 

IIH'II, '.II I. Ill' lll'lril. 

On the 28th "i I him' 1 1' ' "inn catcd to Washington, to thi Governor ol 

< on H' ' 1 1' ui, in the Presidi nl "i Ma . ;ai hu ;i n 1, to thi < ommittee "i Berkshire 
and i" the Committee ol Safety ol New York, his apprehensions fo> the safety 
of the arrist / Ticonderoga, from the inadequacy of the means of defence. On 

1 lir 181 Ii and |i 1 N "i | une he em "in aged Si . 1 laii 

" iliii ii' should movi up cith tl 1 il troops and militia 1 ild 

I'" iibl) el 1 '■ ' 1 hoped to h tvi thi pli .1 1 1 ici ing him n po on ol hi 

pOHl 

So again on 1 he 51 h ol I uly he as mred l 

■ 1 from I'eck»kill ind the 1 n 101 ion, md hi hoped to ei 1 ., 

On Mm yili he informed Washington, bj letter, thai he was up as far as 

Sai itoga with aboi 1 1 1 n hundn 'I I !ontim ntal troops and aboul one il sand 

foui hundred militia, There 1 1 the n< h i thai .1 < 'laii had abandom 'I 

Tii ondi rog I Mounl [ndi pi nd in thi 6th, with thi lo . ol .ill his 

military equi] ts, upon thi id 1 a council of office) , founded on the 



286 [HI - . SOCIETY Ol rH£ CINCINNATI, 

extreme weakness of the garrison, the extensiveness oi the works, and an 

insufficiency of provisions. Genera/ Schuyler had given no order for its 

e\ acuation ; it was as much a surprise to him as to the country, for he expei ted 

in .1 few days to have joined St, Clair with a verj considerable body ol troops. 

He says, in his letter ol the i ith ol July to ( . John Jay 

" fhal il - i was not si fficientl) fortified and supplied with provisions, ii was not 

lii- fault ; it there was a want ol men he was not to blame." 

livery quarter of his Department was replete with difficulty and danger; 

i 1 , Mohawk Valley was menaced by an army of one thousand six hum 

lars and Indians, under Litiitcnan, Co Barrj St I eger, He addressed 

the civil and military authorities in every direction with the most forcible 

tat ions : 

" Even militia mar ought to nun out without delay, in a erisis the most alarming since the 
contest began." 

He directed that the inhabitants retire before the enemy, and every article 
ght off or destroyed that was calculated to assist them; that the roads, 
causeways and Wood Creek be rendered impassible. He issued a proclama- 
to encourage the country and counteract Burgoyne's, He assured Wash- 
ington, on the 12th of July, that he should retard the enemy's advance 

"It my countrymen will support me with vigor and dexterity, and do not a 

: much furthei into the 1 ountrj 

St Clair had not above three thousand five hundred men when he evacuated 
L'icom eroga, and joined Schuyler with only one thousand five hundred, the 
militia, almost to a man. having deserted andgone home. Nix< n'sand Glover's 
13 les had been ordered In Washington from Peekskill to reinforce 
Schuyler, and on the 14th of July, when they arrived, the) onl) amounted 
to five hundred and seventy five men, so that Schuyler's whole strength did 
not then exceed fout thousand five hundred men, including regulars and 
militia. 1 he enemy, whose triumphant progress he had to t heck, amounted to 
upwards ol six thousand regular troops, with the best equipments in arms and 
artillery. Fort George was abandoned on the 14th of July, for it was utterly 
indefensible, being only part of an unfinished bastion. On the 24th of July 
■ army to Moses' Creek, fout miles below Fort Edward, as 
the latter was onl) aheap ol rums, and commanded by the neighboring hills. 
I'lie ener essing upon his advanced posts, but, in the midst of unpar- 

alleled difficulties, his retreat was slow and safe, and every inch of ground 
ted. The distress of the army, in want of artillery and every other 
military and comfortable equipment, was aggravated In despondency, sickness 







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I III iOCIETY OB I III CINC1 NATI. 287 

and the insubordination "I the militia. Almost all the Eastern militia had lefl 
the army. He writes to Washington as follows : 

" I shall go "i loing mj duty, and in end avors to iKscrvc your esteem." 

lie rem wed his call on the Eastern Slates (or assistance, ami told Governot 
Trumbull, oi ( lonni i ticut, that 

" If the Eastern militia did not turn out with spirit, and behave better, we should l» 
ruini d,"* 

By the beginning of August lie was preparing to acl on the offensive, and 

by his ordeis of the 30th of July and 1,5th of August, 1777, General Benjamin 

Lincoln was directed 

1 • > til,... wiili 1 bodj ..I troops to the north ol < ambridge, towards Skeensborough, ind 
take command of thi troop undei General John Stark and leth Warner, who had orders 

to join him and if he should have 1 1 gh 1 01 v in that qua 

As Burgoyne advanced down the Hudson, Schuyler retreated, slowly and in 
good order, to Saratoga and Stillwater. 

During this distressing period the western branch of his military district 
was in the utmost consternation and peril. The army under St. Leger had 
besieged Fori Schuyler, and General Herkimer, with eight hundred of the 
militia, marching to the relief of the fortress, was attacked by a detachment 
of the enemy under Sir John Johnson, and defeated at Oriskany, on the 6th 
of August. On the [6th Schuyler despatched Arnold, with three regiments, 
amounting in the whole only to five hundred and fifty men, to take charge of 
the military operations on the Mohawk. 

lint the period of his eminent services was drawing to a close. Congress 

suspended his cum ma ml, and on the 19th of August, 1 7 7 7, dates arrived in 1 amp. 

" I am sensible," said this great man, in his I, 11. 1 to 1 ongri is, " ol the indignity of being 
ordered from the command ol the army, at a time when an 1 ngagc menl musl soon taki plao 

Though he was directed, by the order of Congress of the tst of August, to 
repair to headquarters, he was afterwards allowed by the resolution of the 1 |th 
of November to attend to his private affairs, " as they had greatly suffered by 
the barbarous ravages of the British Army," until the Committee of Inquiry 
wen ready to act. 

As President ol the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs, he now gave 
specific advice respecting the conducl ol the Six Nations, and recommended 
preparations to carry the war into their territories, ami which eventually 
ter ated in 1 In- expedition under General Sullivan in 1 779. 

In. , 1 1. in. miii' I'M, 1 ol July, 1777. to ' , Benjamin Lincoln, ordering him to |oii 

Northern Army under General Schuyler, then opposin , r 

" My principal iew in lending t/ou there, i ind ol the Eastci n Militia, over whom, I am 

fhien ind who pla I daj rccci\ cd I wo lettc ra from c 

1,1,111 luch a ityle as , that it is absolutely necessary t to send a determined m 



288 I III S0CIET1 OF I III CINCINN All. 

After long delays he was gratified to have his military conduct tested 
before a court-martial, in October, 1778. He was tried and acquitted, with 
the highest honor, of every charge preferred against him. Congress, his 
friends and Washington were desirous that he should resume the command of 
the Northern Department. After repeated applications, Congress, in April, 
1779. accepted lus resignation, and Schuyler withdrew from the army. 

lie was continued a delegate from New York to the Provincial Congress 
in 177S and i;7n. on aCCOUll! ol liis talents, activity and devotion to his 
Country. On the 30th of March. 1 7 S i . he was appointed by the New York 
Legislature the first Surveyor -General of the State and one of the Commis- 
sioners, in 17s 1 and 17S7, lo settle the boundary line between New York and 
Massac husetts. In 1781, and for several years thereafter, he was a member of 
the New York State Senate, and took a zealous part in promoting the adoption 
of the Constitution of the United States, and in 17s,) was elected the.' first mem- 
ber of the first United States Senate under that Constitute n. lie drafted the 
.uts for incorporating the Western and Northern inland lock navigation com- 
panies, and planned and constructed the locks at Little Falls on the Mohawk. 
whi< h finally led to the opening of the Erie (.'anal. 

In 1 7 1) 7 he was again elected a Senator in Congress, and when he look final 
leave of the Senate of his native State, in an affecting address, it was ordered 
to be inserted on their journal 

On the -jih of July, 1786, he was elected Vice-President of the New York 
Society, officiating, at the installation ol the honorary members, with Baron 
Steuben on that d.iv.*- On two occasions he sat lor Trumbull, once in uniform 
(which is now in the Trumbull Gallery), and the other when a Senator, in civil- 
ian's dress. 

The last few years of his hie he spent m retirement at his house in Albany 
in Winter, and the Summer at Schuylerville, where Burgoyne surrendered. 

l>omcslie afflictions followed his unlit >t\ disappointments. His eldest son, 

John Bradstreet •Schuyler, died at ,;o years oi age, from a fe\er contracted 

while up the Mohawk Valley, and Ins daughter Margaret (Mrs. Stephen \ .n\ 

Rensselaer), in (801. In 1803 he lost the wife i<\ his youth, Catharine, a 

daughter of Jeremiah Win Rensselaer, and in the next year his son-in-law, 

General Alexander Hamilton. 

At liis decease he was buried in the family vault 111 the old I hitch Church 

at Albany ; but, upon its demolition, Ins remains were removed to the cemetery 

on the West l'ro\ road, and a suitable shaft erected by his granddaughter (Mrs. 

Starr Miller) marking the spot. In one of his letters occurs the following : 

" Consolation was i<> he sought, where ii can only be truly ami effectually found, in an 
humble acquiescence with the Divine will." 



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THE SOCIETY OF I III CINCINNATI. 289 

PHILIP SCHUYLER, his eldest grandson, was admitted in 1811. He 
was the only child of John Bradstreel Schuyler and Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, 
daughter of the Patroon. He was a member of the Standing Committee until 
he went to England, in (840, as American Consul to the port of Liverpool. 
He married Grace, daughter of Robert Hunter, of New York, and died at his 
residence al Pelham Bridge the 12th of February, [865, in the 77th year of 
his age. (See ante, page 128). 

JOHN SCHUYLER, Ins great grandson, only son of the last, was admitted 
in 1865, elected Secretary in 1X79, and Treasurer-General in 1884. 



W I L L I A M 8CUDDER* 

Lieutenant \st New York Regiment. 

Died in 1X00. 

He was admitted by the New York Society in 17') ; 

Became an Associate* on the .Sth of May, 1775, at Huntington, Suffolk 
County. 

He appears to have first served in Canada as an Ensign in the 3d New York 
Continental Line, and is mentioned as such in a list made up by General 
Schuyler on the 7th of October, 1776. Appointed Second Lieutenant in the isl 
New York Regiment — Colonel Van Schaick's— on the 21st of November, 1776, 
was in McKean's Company, and subsequently promoted to be Lieutenant in 
January, 1779. He was taken prisoner on the 23d of July, 1779. and after his 
exchange rejoined Ins regiment, serving with it until mustered out at the end 
of the war. 

Elias Dayton and others, in April, 1776, certified — 

"That the bearer, Mr. William Scudder, 1 ol rerj reputabli parentage, of considerable 
property in this Town, and we have no reason to believe that his conduct has been such as i<> 
render himself in any way disrespectful, but on thi contrary believe him to l»- a deserving \ 

I li hi l' man ami stri >ngh attached i" the common causi 

From the following letter to the Committee of Safety lie appears to have 

been an Ensign in a company of Minute Men : 

" I would inform your Honors that 1 received a warrant t" enlist men for your Provii 
Henrj O'Hara, being Captain, for which f have listed and have in Billet, in New Jersey, about 
thirty-five. They have been there about six week*, mi i Captain wi nt to \lbany 

seven weeks ago recruiting, ami was In have returned in three weeks I have hail no intelli 
from him since. I know not what to do with the men, as they call on me daily for money or they 

ir '.-.Hi' i» :d aid foi y fund. 



1111 SOCIE IN OF I III' CIN( INN \ II. 

will desert . I ikewise i lu- Jersej people are vexed that their Militia i iway, while they are 

undci pa) and doing nothing. 

" I beg Gentlemen thai you'll take some method for my reliel WILLIAM SCI DDER." 

Mis name appears on the ll.ili l'.i\ Roll as I cutenant. 
\ s \ S 'UDDER, his eldest son, was admitted in 180 



JOHN SHAW 

, mint Nav York Artillery. 

I >u'il on the i (tli of J uly, 1 826. 

Appointed Lieutenant in Moodie's Company, 2d Regiment Continental 
Corpsol Vrtillery — Colonel Lamb's on the 15th of January, 1782, from Ubany, 
Y V", In a communication dated at Poughkeepsie, 15111 January, 1782, 
G ge Clinton said : 

" I am not personally acquainted with tlii- young gentleman, but both as a citizen .nut an 
officei "i ili' I evii ■ ol this State he sustains .1 good character." 

Honorably discharged, with a portion of Ins regiment, on the 1st of Jan- 
uary, 1 784. 

He married Isabella Denniston,* by whom he had a large family of children. 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

JOHN HUGH SHAW, lu- eldest grandson, was admitted in 1845, and 
died m 1S79, leaving no male issue. 



ISAAC SMITH 

Lieutenant \ I 'k Artillery. 

Appointed Lieutenant in Bliss' Company, 2d Regiment Continental Corpsol 
Artillerj Colonel Lamb's on the 21st ol December, 17S1. 

Honorably discharged the service, with a portion of Ins regiment, on the 3d 
ol November, 1 7 S ^. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

She received Aid fi nd foi mnnj ) 



I III 0CIET1 "I I III CINCINN VII. 291 

ISRAEL SMITH 

Paymastei and Captain ■•/ New York Hi 'intent, 

I >ied at Poughkeepsie. 

Appointed First Lieutenant 2d Regiment New York Continental Infantry— 
Colonel James Clinton's — on the 24th of February, [776, and Regimental Pa) 
master on the 15th of May following. Appointed Captain of the Tenth I om 
pany of the 4th New York Regiment ColonelH, 11. Livingston's on the 2isl 
of November, 177'', and transferred to the Fifth Companj ol the 2d New 

York Colonel Van Cortlandt's u| the consolidation of the New York Line 

into two r< giments. 1 1 is name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



JOHN SMITH 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Died on the 15th of June, r8n, unmarried. 

Hi- is said to have been appointed on the 10th of May, 1777, an Ensign in 
Colonel William's R. Lee's Regiment (additional) Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, lmt resigned en the 8th ol April, 177'). Subsequently, in the follow- 
ing November, he lyas appointed a Lieutenant of Marines on the United States 
Frigate " Boston," and taken prisoner at the surrendei ol Charleston, S I 
thi -il of May, [780, but exchanged in the same year. 

Appointed Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery— 
( 'olone, Lamb's on the 28th of June, 17S1, and honorably discharged, with his 
regiment, on the 3d ol November, 1783. 

Transferred to Captain John Doughty's Artillery Company on thi 
establishment, 1 >th ol Vpril, 1 7 X 5 . Promoted i" Captain in the rst Regiment 
of United states Infantry on the 20th ol October, 17.S6. Promoted to be 
Wajoi of the td Regiment 1 nited States Infantry on the 28th of December, 
[791, and placed in the -d Sub- Legion on the 2d ol Septi into r, 1 792. 

Resigned on the est ol October, 1793, and lettled in South Carolina. 

Vppointed Lieutenant I olonel (< mandant) of the 5th Regiment United Stati 

Infantry in July, 1799. Honorably discharged the ervice, with hi regiment 
on the 1 , 1 1 1 < » t June-. [800. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel ol the 3d Reg 
1 nited State Infantry on the 9th of January, [809, which position he held 
until Ins decease. I lis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



rut soon n of i hi Cincinnati. 

WILLIAM STEUBEN SMITH, Ins nephew, the eldest son of Lieutena 
William Stephens Smith, was admitted in iSt 5 as the collateral, lus 
father being .1 member, He was Secretarj ol Legation al Hum'. .mi ol St. 
Petersburgh, married Catherine Johnson, and died without issue, .mi the rath 
ol May, 1 

WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH 

.■ 1 </////. 

Born in Now Vork Cit) in 1755. Died on the 10th ol [une, 1816, .11 
I ebanon, \ \ 

He graduated .11 the College ol New h ej • 1 ied la\% with Samuel 
Join's, until the Revolution broke out, when he joined the army as .1 tv» 
Tin' estate ol liis fat In r, 1 ■ ■ John Smith, was soon aftei confiscated 

i\ppi 1 177(1,111 1 to 1 I ohn Sullivan, with the rank 

1 ind was taken prisoner with him in the Battle of Long Island; but 

escaping the same day, he is said to have left the island in .1 barge with the 
Commander-in-Chief. Subsequently he brought .1 garrison across Hell Gate 
ny, anil 011 the next day was wounded at Harlem Heights, 
while acting as 1 Greene. When the British landed in October 

.11 rhro Neck, he, with ,1 corporal and six men, destroyed the bridge ion 
necting it with the main land .11 the Village ol Westchester, tin 1 ij 1 ompelling 
the enemy to retreat, and reenibarking, they landed further up Long Island 
Sound the next daj al Bell's Neck, win 1 a slurp engagement with 

Sullivan's division, they filed oil to New Rochelle and so to White Plains, He 
then rejoined 1 - * ■ who had been 1 id and p iceeded 

with him to White Plains, covering the removal of the stores. Phc British, 
having taken both Port Washington and Fori I ee, went into Winter quarters 
on Manhattan Island, with Lord Cornwallis over in New Jerse) Washington 
mm crossed the Hudson further up, with (■ Greene in the advance, 

leaving 1 Charles Lee and <.' a Sullivan to protect the rear .mil 

rt on to 1 he I VI. iu are. 

I ee now s, in liini w ith .1 flag and ts to 

Mow, ,n New Vork, and arriving .it the enemy's advanced post ,u King's 

warded them Vftei several days delay, ... ring the answer, he 

returned and joined I ee, who had crossed the Hudson, following up the main 

Vftei 1 ee «,is taken by the British, in his slippers and night-cap, in a 

farm house three miles awaj from Ins command, Smith rejoined 

Sullivan at headquarters at Newton, \ I 



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\ "I ["Mi CINCINNATI. 

Washington crossed the Delaware on the night ol the 15th of December, 
177(1, .mil surprised the Hessians under General Rhal al Trenton, where Lieu 

tenant Smith, with the advi corps ol Sullivan's division, took possess ion ol 

Millbridge and captured the officei i and. Washington senl him to the 

enemy's advanced posl .11 Princeton with a flag and y for thi prisoner, 

Genera/ Charles Lee, who was al New B iwick, 

When the army was marching through New ferse) in 1777, the roads bi 
in a horrible condition, the advanced corps lialted, and La Fayette ;en1 Lieu 
tenant Smith to ascertain the cause, and when informed thi forward camp 
wagon was stuck in the mud, dei lared "thai the quarti rmastei deserved to be 

1 ;." Smith replied, " n you will execute the warrant, sir, 11 shall be 

in .1,1111 u I--..-, uted." 

[n June, 1778, when the British e\ 11 uati il Philadelphia, Vrnold was ■ 
ahead to Allentown, where, ovi rtaking thi m, hi attai ked their rear all the way 
to Monmouth, when General Charles Lee who had lately been exchanged 
coming up with three thousand picked troops, Arnold took possession ol a 
commanding position in the enemy's front, until ordered to retreal b; 
1 . 1 , 1 nsi at the critical moment whin they, in all probability, would h <• - bi 1 n 
obliged to surrender, instead ol pursuing their march to Middleton Point and 
embarking from Sand] Hool in the British ships to New York, This ma) 
unt for his motive in sending important dispatches to the e i) by Lieu- 
tenant Smith, At all events, Washington meeting him whili retreating, found 
hr was mil the right man in the right place, and arrested him, 

When General Sullivan was ordered to the Siege ol Newport, the 13th 
Massachusetts Regimenl was in his division, and Lieutenant Smith was pro- 
mm a, , 1 to be its Lieutenant-t 'olonel, and went into Win in- quarters at Providence. 
IL- accompanied General Sullivan, in the following year, in Ins expedition 
against the Indians in the West, and took command ol the batteaux with the 
ston ■ "ii the Susquehi a, and aftei defeatin ; the Indians returned to Morris- 
town, N, I , foi the Winter. When the Light Infantry, ol three thousand mi 11, 
weri placed under La Fayette, he was appointed the ■ Xdjutant and Sub Inspci tot 
"Hi lie Si all ni Baron Sti ubi n, 

In the campaign against Yorktown hi was appointed an Aide to General 
u.i hington by Congress, and served as such at the surrender, when ii is 
claimed hi pn ;ented I ' ornwallis to the Commandei in-Chief. 

\ ftei .| ii m I im; the Winter in Philadelphia as one ol Washington's family, 

is sci 1 1 iii 1 >< il ib's Fcr 1 \ , N. V,, as Commissar) ol P and while 

arranging the exchanges, is said to havi vi ited New York 1 ity, receiving 

marked civilities from Sii Guj Carlton. He was afterward one ol thi Com- 



-94 I HI SOC IETY 01 I HE CINC INN VTI. 

missioners to arrange for the final evacuation of New York City by the British 
"ii the 25th of November, 1783. 

Vfter the war he was appointe 1 Secretary of Legation under John Adams, 
the Minister to Great Britain, and while there married his only daughter, 
Abigail. When he returned, Washington, then President of the United States. 
lointed him the Marshal of the District of New York, on the 26th of Sep- 
tember, 1 789. 

He revisited Europe, but soon afterwards returned, and held the offio 1 
Surveyor and Inspector of t he Customs of the Port ol \c\\ York. In 1790 he 
was elected Secretary of the New York State S01 iet) of the Cincinnati and 
President in 17115. 

In [80S he retired to private life on his farm .11 I demon. Madison County, 
N, Y . where he was elected to Congress in 1813. 

It is related of him that the spy, Major John Andre, had requested by his 
will, which was filed at Tappan, that his gold watch should be given to a 
relative in England ; and after his execution, on October 2d, 17S0, it was sold 
for thirty guinea.- to Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, who sent it to General Robertson, 
t.> he forwarded as requested, hut for some reason it failed to be so disposed of, 
and having been sent back to Now York was again sold, it is said, for five 
hundred guineas. Hi- name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM STEUBEN SMITH, his eldest son, was admitted in 1815 b> 
the Society, while his father was alive and a member, a- tin collateral successor 
of his uncle, Lieutenant John Smith, but died, without leaving issue, on the 12th 
of May. 1 

EPHRAIM SNOW 

Lieutenant \st New York Regiment. 

Appointed in 1775 an Ensign in the 2d New York Continental Regiment — 
<nel Van Schaick's — and served with it in Canada. Promoted to be Second 
.tenant of the Eighth Company of the 1st New York Regiment — Colonel 
McDougall's -on the 24th of March. 1776, and of the Colonel's Company en 
consolidation of the New York lane, on the 21st of November, 1776. Pro- 
moted to be Lieutenant in the Fourth Company on the 26th of March. 1779, 
and -erved as the recruiting officer oi the regiment until mustered out. 

In 1S06 he appears to have been elected Sheriff of Herkimer County, N. Y. 
He married Chloe Williams,* by whom he had one sun only. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

d .ml from the Society's fund for many years. 



nil SOCIETY 01 THE CINCINNATI. 295 

EPHRAIM SNOW, his only son, was admitted in 1809, having married 
Lucy Lester, and died without male issue. 



JOHN STAGG, Jr. 

Lieutenant, Spencer's {additional} Regiment, New Jersey. 

Born in 175s. Died on the 28th of December, 1803, in New York City. 

His father was an Associator in Haverstraw Precinct in May, 1775, and 
through him he was appointed a Captain of Minute Men. 

Commissioned Lieutenant in Colonel Oliver Spencer's (additional Con- 
tinental Regiment on the ph of March. 177S, and acted for a while as 
its paymaster. At Valley Forge, it is claimed, he was Secretary to General 
Washington. Updn the establishment of the War Office, Washington, then 
President, had him appointed one of its clerks, which office he held for eight 
years. 

In 1801 he was elected Sheriff of New York, and died of yellow fever while 
in office. 

He married, lirst, Phebe Wood, by whom he had only one child, Harriet 
(Mrs. William W. Win Wyck) ; and, secondly, Margaret, the daughter of 
William de IVystcr, by whom he had a large family. His name appears on the 
Half- Pay Roll. 

JOHN LIVINGSTON STAGG, Ins eldest son. was admitted in 1813, and 
died unmarried. 

JOHN STAKE 

Lieutenant Light Dragoons. 

lie appears in the " Balloting Book " of the state of New York as a Cornet 
0i Cavalry, and awarded eleven hundred and fifty acres Of land for his services, 
having served to the end of the war, with rank of Lieutenant in ColonelVon 
Heer's* Light Dragoons. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

The following letter ol his is interesting, and shows how he battled with the English Ian veil as for 

the cause: 

" Rabding Dccempcr 24. 1783. 
" I IBBR Sir 

" I schould Dack ii as .1 grael faver, you wold be so kint as to Ender my Name and Capt Jacob Mytinger ol my 

Troop in the B k ol S dy of Sencinatcs for whech we have Lafi a Monts Pay whel the Pay Master Generate 

of the arMy, and hafc enclosel a (.ruin.,! from tin Pa) Master Generale, wheih mentionel thai the Money 



296 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

JEHOSHAPHAT STARR 

Ensign $d Connecticut Regiment. 

He was admitted at a meeting of the New York State Society, held on the 
1 2th of August, 1786, signing the roll as Ensign of Colonel S. B. Webb's, late 
Connecticut Regiment; but dues not appear to have deposited his one month's 
pay in the Society's fund. He does not appear either, to have been entitled to 
the benefits of the officers who served in accordance with the Act of Congress, 
entitling them to half-pay for life and land warrants at the termination of the 
war. 

GERARD STEDDIFORD 

Lieutenant ^th Pennsylvania Regiment. 

Born in 1752. Died on the 3d of April, 1820. 

He was admitted by the New York Society in 1789. 

Appointed Regimental Quartermaster of the 3d Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Continental Infantry— John Shee's — on the 9th of February, 1776, and Ensign 
on the 23d of March following. In the capture of Fort Washington, on the 
1 6th of November, 1776, he was taken prisoner, and not exchanged until 1778. 
In the meanwhile, on the reorganization of the Pennsylvania Continental Line 
for the war, he was arranged in the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental 
Infantry — Colonel Lambert Cadwallader's — and on the 12th of October, 1777, 
promoted to be Lieutenant. Upon his release he joined his regiment, and 
served with it until honorably discharged, at his own request, on the 23d of 
May, 1 781. 

He resided in New York City after the war, and married Jane Bicker, by 
whom he had one son and four daughters. His name appears on the Half- 
Pay Roll. 

HENRY BICKER STEDDIFORD, his only son, was admitted in 1820, 
and died unmarried. 

May be Trowen as Sun the order is Broeduset. I schall be Blaesed to you, you will Rid me a lader and Mentionet 
what Money must be send for Endrens, if der is any oder Expendes, you will be so kint as to lad us know. My self 
and Cafit Mytenges will comply whit whet you schalle sin proper. 

" Sir, I Rcinin whet the Gradest Estim 

" Your Efectiont trend and M. H S. 
" Col Harmer. at MrsShrunks I avern, " BARTHEW VON HEER 

"Second Street, Philadelphia. " Major Light Dragoons." 



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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 297 

STEUBEN 

Major-General. 

Frederick William Augustus [Baron) Von Steuben was burn in Magdeburg, 
Prussia, on the 15th of November, 1730, and died at Steubenville, V Y., on 
the 2.sth of November, 1795, unmarried. 

He was educated at the Jesuit Colleges of Neisse and Breslau, a Cadet in 
an Infantry Regiment in 1747, and served us a volunteer with his father, under 
Frederick the Great, at the Siege of Prague. In 1758 he was an Adjutant- 
General at kumicTsdorf, where he was wounded, and in 1762, with several 
other young officers, served at the Siege of Schneidnitz. In 1764,11c u.i 
appointed Grand-Marshal of the Prince's Guard. He was a Knight of the 
< >rder of Fidelity. 

Coming to America in November, 1777, he offered his services to General 
Washington as a volunteer, and going to York, l'enn., where Congress was 
sitting, he was instructed to report to the Commander-in-Chief at Valley Forge, 
where he was astonished at the want and suffering of the troops, declaring 
"that under them no European army could be kept together." On the 29th of 
Man h, 1778, he was appointed by Congress Inspector-General, with the rank of 
Major- General. 

In 1 779 ( 'ongrcss adopted his " Manual," inaugurating a system of police, 
which was of infinite value, saving waste of tents, arms, accoutrements and 
ammunition, and long before the conclusion of the war the army arrived undei 
it at the highest standard of discipline. Prominent nun and officers were his 
selected associates, yet others of inferior rank also enjoyed the hospitality of 
his table. "Poor fellows," he said, "they have field-officers' Stomachs, without 
their pay and rations." 

In October, 1780, he was one of the court-martial that condemned the 
unfortunate spy, Major John Andre, and immediately afterwards, when General 
Greene surperseded Gates, after his defeat, Steuben accompanied him in the 
Southern Campaign. 

Most of his imported camp equipage he sold in order that he might return 
the hospitalities of the French officers, saying, "I can stand it no longer; 1 
will give one grand dinner to our allies, should I eat my soup with a wooden 
spoon forever after." 

Returning to the north, after the surrender at VTorktown, he continued with 
the army until peace was proclaimed, Rising at three o'clock in the morning, 



-"i)N nil SOCIETY OF I III CINCINNA II. 

while his valet dressed his hair, he would smoke Ins pipe, drink his cup of 
coffee, jump on his horse, and with his staff was at parade at sunrise 

It is told of him that upon his being presented to the attractive sister of the 
British General Sheaffe, he informed her thai he had been cautioned in his 
early youth " to be on his guard against Miss S ■ ' (mischief 

An annuity for life of $2,500 was granted him by Congress, and several 
oi the States passed resolutions acknowledging his services, presenting him 
with grants of land. New Jersej gave him a small farm, ,\\\t\ New York 
sixteen thousand acres <>t land 111 Oneida County, where, in a cabin, which 
he called the " J'a/aee oj Logs," he settled down, cultivating only about sixty 
acres, and passing the later years of his life, like the Roman General, Cincin- 
The books he had collected appear to have been his only companions, 
when his lilies, Walker, North and Fairlie, were absent. 

A stroke ol apoplexy finally called him away from life, and wrapped in his 
military cloak, in a pine coffin, as he had directed,* he was buried at Ins home 
in the wilderness, A highway subsequently being located over his grave, 1 ! 
Major Walker had Ins body removed to another and more secluded position, 
and as the Baron had requested, no stone was placed to indicate the spot, A 

11r.1l tablet was erected in the German Reformed Church, which stood m 

Nassau Street, between Maiden Lane and fohn, which reads as follows : 



m 



1 he pi opli ol iii. Stuti ol Ni i\ \ 5 1 ..-.I, i', 1 hi.] .11,1. r , in 1 , n 

Know vi- ih. 11 mil t Probate ncntnrj in the 

folli iv m , 1 " wil : 

1. I Rl ■ 01 Kiek w 111 1 am. 1, \is'. >\ 01 siii BEN, ol em 1 ii ... ■ New York, a,, make this 

my lust wilt and testament, exclude my relations in Europe from any 

;■ \ imp, Benjamin w alkcr nnd 

William North as my children, and make them sole (I iftenvnrd i ol 

; ee thereof I bequeath the said IU'njamin Walker the 

itii me by Congress t'o the said William North I ver-hillcd sword and the gold bos 

given mi bj tbi I i\ ol Neu York t'o John J. Mulligan 1 bequeath thi whole ol m, library, maps and charts, 
and the sum of $ nplete It. And to each of my servants living with tnc at the time of my dect 

year's wag! mi this, to my valet de ehnmbre, all my weni apparel ; but I do hereby declare thai 

these leg i. '. in the foltowin they >l" nol permil any p< 

in which 1 '.toll dii . I" I thai the) wrap me up in my old 

ami in tv a such pot as 1 before my decease poin 1 1 

nnd that the; I \ istlj . 1 do in e, dcy 

bequeath .ill ill- resi and n id i . real and personal 

Benjamin Walker and William North, to hold to them, thcii heirs, exi Ldminis- 

trators, share and share alike, herehj appi thi lid Bi unii Walkei and Wdlinni North executors ol this 

mm I lsI wilt nnd to lament , and rei wills bj mi herd 

Nuw Yuri;, Eel ,, i s rEUBEN. [si w 

Lament ol tin- nbove testator in I ittestcd 

I., us in hi- presence, i II \KI ES WILLIAM 

CHARLES AD VMS, 
\\ II ROHINSON 

Citj ■■! \i ii Yorl 
led to probate Februarj 1795, by Willinm H. Robinson nnd is attested 
b) To, Probate 1 

is.. 



I III 01 II ■ I V OF III!'. CINCINNATI. 2Qg 

Sat red to the Memory of 
Fred Wili Aug. Baron Si euben. 

\ ( i| i in hi 

Knight "( the order of Fidelity : 
Aide de < amp to Frederick the Great, King of I'm i i 
i 1 1 i Gi neral and inspei toi l !i m ral 
In the Revolutionary War. 

I ii d, H pected, and suppoi ti d bj \\ ashington, 

He gave Military Skill and di ciplim 

1 1. the < 'itizen-Soldii rs 

Who 

I niiiiiin;' the decrees ol I leaven, 

- ' I In In. I. pi ml of thl I nil' 'I Si ill 

l h. highl) polii in d manners of thi Ban m 

Wei ' 'I 

B 1 1 i nobli fi i ling ol I hi hi arl : 

ill i I, i '] daj for melting i haril 

i llosi d ■Mil', in the strong gra ip ol death 
i in \h nHM'i.'il is inscribed 

Bj in Am i 

Who had thi I to bi his Vide di < amp 

The happim to bi hi Friend 
Ob. .,! 

He was elected Vice President ol the New Vork State Societj ol the Cin- 
cinnati in 1785, and President, presiding at the inauguration of the first 
honorary members, on the iili of |uly, 1 7<s^». 

At the Centennial Celebration of the Surrender ol Lord Cornwallis at 
Vorktown, several of the descendants of ;t collateral branch ol Steuben's 
family came over from Germany, at the invitation ol the 1 nited States, to 
assisi on the occasion. 

When in the French service, he was known as baron de Steuben, but in 
America, he dropped this title of nobility and signed himself Steuben. 



EBENEZER STEVENS 

Lieutenant-Colonel New ) ork Artillei v. 

Born in Boston on the rithol August, 1751. Died at Rockaway, L. [., on 
the 2d of Septembei , 1 823. 

lie was the son (.1 Ebenezer Stevens, of Roxbury, Mass., and Elizabeth, 
daughter of the Ret>. Thomas Weld, a non-conformisl clergyman, In Decern 
ber, 1773, he was one of the "Tea Party," and afterwards In '.inn a merchant 
at Provident e. 



d to ha b m Nurl d. 



(i 1 III SO( II I \ "l I 111 CINCINNA II. 

Commissioned by the Assembly a Lieutenant on the 8th ol May, 1775. and 

raised two companies of artillery for the expedition against Quebe< Appointed 

Captain in Henry Knox's Artillery on the isl of fanuary, 1776, and promoted 

to be il I ■ cm the 9th ol No\ embei following. 

'■al Wilkinson says, in liis reporl from Saratoga, on the 1 th 

oi' October, 1777 : 

" ['he commanding offieei of artillery, gallant, vigilant ami ready to 

evi \ advantage, ran .1 couple "t light field pieces down the plain, near the river, and 

1 battery upon tin balteaux and watering party al the landing, which soon dispersed it, 

but this drew the fire of the enemy's whole posl upon him from the heights, obliging him to 

retire, aftei the loss ol .1 tumbril, which was blown upbj the enemj and caused .1 shout from the 

w hole Bi ii ish .,i my." 

Congress on the 30th 1 'I April, 1778 

I ...in consideration ol his services and the strict 

attention with which he discharged his duty, as commanding offieei "i artillerj in 1 1 1 ^ - Northern 
Department, dm-iiv, is, take rank (bj brevet) as a Lituttnan* 

il\. 11 li,' I',' > ommissioned ai 1 ordinglj ," 

\K,», on tin- 24th oi November, 177S 

red, lii 11 ' Stevens ol tin Vrtillcry, now holding thai rank by 

brci , be appointed a i 1 l i', and that his commi on bear date from 

that ol his brevet, and that he be entitled to take command ol the firsl vacancj thai ma) [all in 
the artillei \ ." 

(Mi the 171I1 of December, 1778, he was accordingly assigned to the 2d 
Regiment, Continental Corps of Vrtiller) 1 John Lamb's 

tenant-C ! Oswald, resigned. Receiving lus orders at West Point 

and joining tin- regimenl .11 White Plains, In' marched with it into Winter 
quarters in 1 77S. 

To a Committee ol Congress, after the war, he in.nK- tin- following report 
of the expedition from Head ol Elk to Annapolis ; 

"In tin 17S1 I cemmanded tin artillerj on .in expedition to Portsmouth, 

Virginia, under tin d< la 1 tyetti 1'he division halted in the < vol ^i ipolis Hie 

lliilish, hearing • >! out being there, senl two twentj gun ships, and blockaded tin harbot 

nained then six wei cveral councils of wai were held, after the Commander-in-Chief 
had ordered us back to headquarters, and it was thought impracticable to retreat bj watei \ 
majoritj were i"i returning bj land, and officers wen sent oul i" procure teams, to removi tin 
artillerj and tores I'hej wen oul t< n days, but returned without being abli to procun anj 
Anolhei council was held, and 1 proposed to return bj watci to the Head ol I'll- l'\ remo> ing 
those ships out ol tin Uaj M\ plans were thought impracticable bj 1 Lee, mj friend 

who told the Marquis if the vessels 1l1.1t I took were lost he must pay for them, Hie Marquis 
i". I he would assist mi' I fitted up two sloops "I about sixt) tons burthen 
with ten eight-pounders each, and .1 travelling forge in their holds, and raised an awnin 

eel 1 'i' whole was done in three days, and manning each with two hundred volu 
sent them out about ten o'clock in the morning, and drove the enemy's ships from theii 
ings, an a 1I1 il-- opened the passage for our own detachment, which arrived .11 the 1 lead ol Elk In 
water thai night I do not l.n,'" whal would have been tin- consequence had we returned by 
land and left our little fleet and si< ■,;,■ artillerj behind, but it was thoughl In 1 Lei thai 



I III < ii II I 1 hi I ill CINCIN '.' ATI. ;■ i 

i would havi fallen into Ihcii hands, and Ihi del Ics i tj bcei plundered and 

i i. If Congri a had known of it l hej ;ht havi honored mi with a mark of thcii ipproba 

tion. 'Ih. Marqui vroti thi Commander-in Chicl n peeling my i luel I'hia I had b; 

letter from C n i al Kno 

i 1 1, m his return to Philadelphia, General Knox wrote to him as follows : 

"I lament youi I \ disappointed ol an opportunity of a hibilin , befon thi French and 

1/r. Arnold i pcciall) after thi great i ertioi . • iu h i made, of which the Marquis has written 

in i ii. Ii.hi.Imiiii. t term to thi Ci immandi i in i hiel 

lie H ndered effii ienl servii e with Ins Park al \ orktown, whii h w a ai I nuwl- 

edged bj the I ommander in Chief, in general orders, as folio 

"Thi skill o conspicuously manif i ted in thi managci t and direction of thi ci and 

mortars, ha\ I our nobli allii , and broughl homi to thi feelings of our cnemii , thai 

ih. "Hi. M i oi Hi' \ ii in hi illi i . Ii.i re acquired a n pcctabli kno i their profi 

in J; ,-iry, i / 8 i, hi was at Burlington recruiting, and wa again tationed 

ai \\ esl Point, unl il mustered out ol the servici 

In July, 1783, In was coi ssioned by General Benjamin Lincoln, then 

Secretary oi War, to erect an arsenal to replace the old State Magazim , burned 
by the enemj On the evacuation ol New York City by the British, when the 
Army of the Revolution 1 nti n d, hi wa 1 al the head of hi \ < ommand. 

When ii was afterward proj I to divide the United States into foui 

Military Departments, Washington offered him the command of one of them, 
lini hi declined furl hei militai \ sei \ ii e 

After the peaci he became a ver) successful merchanl in New Vork ( itj 
building up an extensive foreign connection, especial!} with Franct 
mi lulu 1 hi the New VotV Stati Legislature in 1800 ; Alderman ol the Phird 
Ward, New Vml; City, in 1 Waj'01 General ol tin State Artilli rj ; one ol 

the foundei ol 1 1" Tammanj Societ) oi Columbian Order, in tituted in 1 , rj 

1 1 ii 1 1 lers and Pri idenl ol the New England Society, organized in 

18 ; and one ol the three Commissioners in [812 charged with the construi 
1 urn iii 1 he defeni es ol 1 he < ii v "l New Vm 1 . 1 

( 'olonel Stevens personal appearance has been admirabl) perpetuated l>\ 
Trumbull in his celebrated picture, in thi Rotunda ol the Capitol al Wa hing 
ton, ni the "Surrendei ol B tw , ' n pri 1 nting him Ii " upon a 1 1 in ; 



Lghlngton ■ 1 ...in ■. 1 a tid 1 - 1 lyctti thi credit 

(• In another letter, after thi 

iquiry for hi opinion fence of New Yorl harbor, then proponed to bi 

■dvl 1 

" I I1.1t, Ii. '■■ . confident they ni Id bi m 1 n thai harl 1 tint ol I 

[ fitted out 1 ' tnd th 

1 ' Iloatin 1 ■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ted I I I tr-poundci 111 

d ll tin g round, and 1 1 lencri 

I conclude that bodies tl ore 

for© 



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and in the "Surrendei ol Cornwallis " he is in the background al the head oi 
the artillei \ . 

From his residence in Warren Street, New Vork City, he was followed to 
the grave by the members of the Cincinnati Society, honored .is one of the 
braves who helped to secure the liberty ol Vmerica, He was elected Vice 
dent of the New Vork State Societj ol the Cincinnati from 1804 to 1 ! ■ • 3 

llis insi wife was Rebecca Hodgdon, by whom he had two sons and one 
daughter (Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn), His second wife was Lucretia, the 
w i . ! ■ -\\ ol Richardson Sands, and daughter ol [ohn Ledyard, ol Hart 

ford, Conn., bj whom he had .1 large famil) of children. Ills name appears 
on the Hall Pa} Roll. 

HORATIO GATES STEVENS, his eldest son. was admitted in 1 s - , 

Born in Stamfi d, O nn., on the 19th of September, 1778. Married 1 

Rhinelandei ol New Vork, and died in that city on the 16th of June. 1873, 
He was elected Vice President from 1S4S to 1S54 

JOHN RHINE] VNDER STEVENS, Ins grandson, eldest son of the 
last, was admitted in 1874, and elected a membei ol the Standing Committee 
in 1S86. 

) A M E S ST I W A K T 

( 'apiain ^th Veto I 1 

He was a resident ol New \ ork City, and appears to have been engaged in 

recruiting for the Northern Department, by a letter to John Jay, in the State 

rds, from 1 Janus Livingston, dated Now Vork, 24th ol August, 

1 / / " • 

" D) vk sik. 1 .nn now informed bj Wright, he can n Company oi Men in 

row ShouW take ii .1- .1 partici : . mention the matter to the 

nen ,'i the Provincial Congress and ii approvi eg you'l furnish him with moi | 

thai purpose He is .1 good recruiting officer, and believes he'l soon raise his company, 1 
settle the inai iccting the Rank ol the officer, with 1 Si uyler, agreeab 

from Congress. As soon .1- these two companii Wright's and Stewart's, are filled, > . 
u « order them to the Northward, where I propose going to-morrow 01 next da) .11 

lurthcrest, ii not wanted here, Ilu enemy are al Klatbush, their numlx rs nol know n, though, we 
,\,m uioimni expect an attack 1 shall wail your answer thi evi ini » tli R< pei 

jas, 1 [\ tNUSTOH 

Appointed Ca ol the 5th Now Vork Regiment 1 1 ewis Du Bois 

on the Jist of November, 1770. By the act of Congress he was deranged in 
January, 17S1, aftei serving his country faithfully foi five years. His name 
11 us on the 1 lalf-Pay Roll. 



I 1 1 1 \ NCI I 

E H E N EZ E R ST OR E R 

Lieutenant 2d Massachusetts* Regiment, 

Born al Wells, Me , on the 9th of July, 1758. Died on thi ioth ol [anuary, 
18 |ii, .it ( loi ham. Mi 

lie was 1 riginal membei ol thi Ma achusetts Society, 1 827 mel 

uiih the N< v\ Vork, and signed its roll as Lieutenant and Quartcrmaste> ol thi 

■'i Massachusetts Regimenl His father, fohn Storer, mi I Mary, the istei 

hi Govertun John 1 angdon, ol New Hampshire, 

He enlisted in Phinni y's Ri gii t, on the 17th ol Vpril, 1776, as .1 Corporal, 

and was promoted, on the isi of Augusl following, t" be a Sergeant, Appointed 

•/, in Si ni Brewer's Reg t, on the 13th ol November, 1776, md 

promoted to Lieutenant, in % Sprout's Regiment, on the 5th of July, 1779, and 
served as its Paymaster and < lothu 1 until mustered oul ol the service in 17 ■ ; 

He was in the battles ol Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Saratoga and 
Monmouth. 

\ 1 1< 1 the wai he settled in Portland, Me ; engaged in mercantile pursuits, 
mil II removing to New Vork, where he died .1 recipient ol the benefits ol the 
Oi ler, He married twice ind lefl threi ions. Ilis name appears <>n the 
11. hi Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM STRACHAN 

Lieutenant New ) oi k , I / till 

Appointed Second Lieutenant ol the id Ri t, Continental Corps of 

Artiller) Colonel Lamb's on the isl ol February, 1777; Commissary to the 

Brigadi on the 15th of May, 177V; pro ted to be Lieutenant in his regimenl 

on the 1 1 1 1 1 "I \ 1 11 1 1, 1781, and assigned, on thi 19th of June, 1781, to < aptain 
foseph rhi mi. is' ( lompany. 

Honorably di 1 hi I, with a porl ol his reg :nt, on thi 3d ol Novi m 

ber, 17^,1. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

\\ll.LI\M STRACHAN, his eldesl son, was admitted in 1812 

WILLIAM STUART 

Lieutenant, ffazen's Regiment, 

Died mi the 5th ol Febi uai \ , 1 831. 

He was a ginal member "I the Pennsylvania Society, bul was tran 

1. 1 1 ill, upon Ins removal to Ni w Vork, in 1826. 



.1 I ill OCIKTY Ol I'lIK CINCINNATI 

\ppointi .1 '• .111,1 | nl ihi Hi k, i;iiih in, t '.in. uli. in 

| ontiiu ni.ii iiii.uin\ . Muses Mar.cn in K< hruui ) . > 

In the llattli nl Hrandywinc hi ivn wounded Honorubl} dischurged the 
crvii > . willi hi'. i'( ".mi, in. on tin |d of Novcmhei i 

lie married Uli uhetli Clinton, l>j whom he hail three sons aiul three 
liters His name appears on the I lull l\ij Roll 

^\ 1 1 I i \ M ''II \ K r, in. eUlcsl surviving son, was admitted us his 

hj the New Vork y in 185.) He manic l Kli ubeth Hai kus, 

and died on llie 10th ol |nnc, 1 ■ I, nl his n il ,: igh miton, N \ . 

withoul ■ 



( \l I -I? S\\ \N 

: 1 , , , 

Horn in M m the id ol |uly, 1758 Hied al Washington, P C, on the 

■,<t ii ,•! Novi mbi r, 18 

He was * 1 irolled as u.nieinber of the Massai husi II S01 icty, i<-i\ 

"■■ i ned the Institution, with his regiment, .11 New Windsor, but, being 
stationed al Wesl Poinl in 1 Sj, he met with and signed ii>>' Roll ol the New 
Vork Sot iel \ til 1 he 1 itne ol it-' 01 •: mi ation, 

il,'. nil. 1. d in the M I mi' mi sen ing us 1 and 

iiieecssivelj Promoted to In i in the oth Massachusetts Regi 
in, in , lames Wi ion's on the 16th ol November, 1779 rransfi 

1,' Hi, mIi Regiment, Massachu Continental liifantrj I Michael 

.Mi ill,- p. i ,,i I .iiiu.ii \ . iS; On the disbundnienl ol the army, 
uftci Hi, war, In wa 1 1 Henrj lackson's Regiment, and stationed al 

Wi l Point, until his rcjj was disbanded, on the 10th ol |une, 1 ■- 1 

1 1>- entered tin I' 1 1 Wit ■ " ol tin 1 nitt ,1 States as an 

1. 'iin Pierce, on tin isl ol [anuary, 1 • ■ ^ us ti ansft 1 red 1,' 
iiu w .11 Department, mulct 1 Knox, on the 10II1 ,m Vpril, 1781), and 

appointed 11 the l nitcd Stutt ■ Vrtny, with the rank ,'i 

tin 'iii ol May, 179 i t h ned on account of his health, on the jot h ol 

Inn, . 1 

11,- served in iin' llatllcs ol Monmouth, Sp 1 1 md al Vorktown, with 

iin- I ighl Infantn undei l ■< l 113 

in 1 ,,s he published •• \n Vccounl ,'i tin Northwestern 1 akesol America," 
11, mi' he 1 8th ol \i" ■■•. Mum Henrietta, the daughtei ,'i 

John Vbert, ol I'Tederickstown, M< His name appears 1 Hall Pnj Roll, 



Ill I ■ I \ "i mci i 



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BERNARDUS SWAK TWOll I 

/ >i i n ui Yew I 01 h Rt hut nt 

Died in i^i in Wt Rtcln ter Count v, N. V. 

Appointed Ensign in Ihi •'! New Yorl Regiment Co/one/ Van Cortlandt's 
mi the ml "i September, 1778, and nerved until discharged, with Iiih regi 

in- ui in 1 78 ■ 11 1 n. ink appi urn on I he 1 1. ill Pa) Roll 



CORNELIUS SWAK I Wol'l 

< 'aptain 1 1, 11 tenant New York \>\ 

He was lent ol New York ' ity, and enlisted in Captain Seba tian 

Bauman's Company ol New Yorl Artillery, on the 16th ol April, 1776, which 
u.r. then attai hi 'I to ' olonel Hi nry Knox's Rcgimi nl 

Ap] ted Second Lieutenant ol his company on th( tsl '.1 |uiy, 1776, and 

pro ted to bi Lieutenant ol lh( imc, 01 thi rst ol |. ary, 1777, when his 

company wa transf erred to tin id Kegi t, Continental Corp ol Artillery 

< olont I 1 ..11 nl 1 •. and the remainder of I iment discharged, by 1 piration 

of enlistment Promoted to bi ( 'aptain 1 " l < 1, nattt ol his regiment, on thi id 

of September, 1778, and wai in Captain Andrew Moodie' Company, 1 tin 

jpth ol I mi' , 1781, when h( wan tran ferrcd to that ol ' 'aptain Thomo 1 
l:lr 

1 ti w.i ill .11 pri 1 111 1 779, and 1 hangi 'l hi 17th ol l)ec< mbi 1 . 

1 , Honorably discharged t hi crvice, with a portii f hi regiment, on 

the 3d of November, 17 ; II in name appeal on thi Half- Pay Roll 



CALM', SWI.I/I 



'.1, 1 , ,'n 1 ./ V, w York Rt nihil/ 



Appointed Surgeon's Watt ol the r si New Yorl Regiment Colonel Van 

Schaick's on thi ist ol May, 1777, and promoted to bi Surgeon of tl 

on the 10th of October, 1779, ind erved until the end of tin ivai 

He married Garritji Nieukirk, by whom he had 1 ons and three daughters 
1 1 1'. 11. inn appcari on thi Hall Paj Roll 



3°0 1111 SOCII IN OF I III ( [NCINN \ II 

GEORGE SYTEZ 

Captain \st New York Regiment. 

I >ied on the Susquehanna in 1819. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant in the 2d New York Regiment, Continental 
[nfantry— ( 'olonel Van Schaick's in 1 775, and went with it through the Canada 
Campaign, but does not appear to have been included in the consolidation of 
the Line at Quebec, made by Bt General David Wooster, on the 15th of 

April, 177(1, who was then in command after the death ol Montgomery, Hav- 
ing been mentioned in a reporl ol General Schuyler's "asa vtty good Adjutant," 
he was appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant of tin- 3d New York Regiment — 
Colonel Gansevoort's on the 21st of November, 1770. Omitted as Adjutant 
on the roster, May, 177s. 

Promoted Captain on the 7th ot' fanuary, 1780, and transferred to the 1st 
New York Regiment, where he served until mustered out. His name appears 
on the Halt Pay Roll as Major. 



SILAS TALBOT 

. lone/ and Captain United States Na 

Born in Rhode Island on the 1 uh of January, 1751. Died on the 30th oi 
June, 1813, in New \ ork City. 

[n accordance with a resolution passed by the New York State Society of 
the Cincinnati, on the 4th of July, 1701'. he was admitted to membership upon 
condition oi his depositing one month's paj in the fund, and subscribing his 
name to the Institution, hut the record shows that he did not subscribe his 
name to the Roll tint il 1 SoS, 

\i the outbreaking oi the Revolution he entered the service in a Conti- 
nental Rhode Island regiment as a I rid served as such at the Siege ot 
Boston. In 1776 he accompanied the army to Niw Vork, where, for services 
rendered in skillful operations against the vessels of the British in the harbor, 
he was commissioned Ma/o In November, 1777, at Fort Mifflin, although 
wounded, he continued in the action until it was evacuated. In 1778 he is 
ionuA again in Rhode Island, assistin 1 at Sullivan in the transportation 
of the troops, and in October oi that year captured the "Pigot,"a floating 
battery of 22 guns, belonging to the enemy, while at anchor in the roadstead 



I III iOI III V "I Till CINCINN \ 11. 307 

"I Newport Harbor. Having overhauled and equipped her, and with the 
"Argo,"a sloop-of-war of 10 guns, he cruised off the New England coa t, 
capturing the British ships "Lively," "King George" and "Dragon." He 

was 1 <n issioned by Congress a Lieutenant-Colonel on tin- 14th ni November, 

1 77S, ,wu\ mi the 1 7 1I1 hi September, 1 779, a ( 'aptain in the Navy. 

Subsequently, in 1 1^,, Ins flag-ship was c aptured, and lie taken prisoner and 
confined in tin- Jersey prison ship, until sent to England, where In- remained 
until exi hanged in I *ei ember, 1781. 

After tin- wai in purchased the estate of Sir William Johnson on the 
Mohawk, where hi was elei ted foi several terms to the New York Legislature, 
and i" 1 Congress in 1 79.5. 

When the Government reorganized the Navy, in [794, he was irdered to 
superintend the construction of that famous frigate the " Constitution," 01 as 
sin was called "Old Ironsides," in which, becoming his flag-ship in 1799, he 
Cruised to and around the West Indies. 

In September, 1801, he resigned from the service, and retired to dome tii 
life, living in New York City until his decease, when he was buried in Trinity 
Church-yard. 

He married, first, Anna, the daughtei ol Colonel Barzillai Richmond, o) Pro- 
vidence, R. [., by whom he had a large family of children. By his two other 
wives, Rebecca Morris, and Eliza, the widow Pintard, he left no issue. His 
eldest sun, Cyrus, died, leaving only female issue. 

Willi \ M RICHMOND TALBOT, his eldest great grandson, in the 
direct male hue, was admitted by the New York State Society in the succession 
mi the |th of J uly, 1 881. 



SAMUKL TALLMAIXJE 

Lieutenant zd New York Regiment. 

Residing at Brookhaven, Suffolk County, I.. I., he became an Associafor, 
signing mi the 8th ol I une, 1 775- 

lb was commissioned Sergeant in Sackett's Company of the 4th New York 
Regiment, On the zist of November, 1776; promoted to be Ensign on the 1st 
"i March, 1779; Adjutant on the nth of April, 17S0, and appointed Lieutenant 

in the same on the -'7th ol October, 1781. Transferred subseq tlj 1-' the 

zd New York Ri nent Colonel Van Cortlandt's — with which he served until 

mustered OUt. Mis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



; rHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNA'J I. 

WILLIAM TAPP 

Lieutenant .;,' /Veie> York Regiment. 

Bom in London, England, on the 22d ol December, 1750, Died in 1 7 < j< • 
in Ni u Vork City, 

\t the .i".>' "i sixteen he came in Vmerii .1. and enlisted when the Revolution 
broke out, Vppi iint< .1 m th< 14th ol February, 1775, recruiting the 

Fifth ( ompaii) "i the 1st New Vork Continental Regiment Colotu Mi Dou 
gall's and promoted, on the 13th <■! June following, i" SV< ond I ieutenant, and 
mi\ the ,1 li i'\ |nh "I I In- same \ CUI Qua 

In the Canada Campaign lie was in Co/one Nicholson's Regiment, and by 

1, r of G 1 Wooster, then commanding the Continental forces before 

Quebec, dated 15th <■! Vpril, 1776, he appears to have been acting .is a 
■unit. 

Iii the list of the four battalions arranged by the committee he is named as 
the .S' of the Second Company of the 2d Battalion i ','/,".,, \ ,m 

( 'mil. null's. Promoted to be Lieutenant of De Witt's Company, 3d New Vork 
Regiment, on the nsl ol November, 177". 

li is recorded in the minutes ol the Committee of Arrangements of t lu- 
Continental Line in 1776, thai "he was .1 good officer and (il foi .1 second 
lieutenant," 

In 17, lie married, .11 Fishkill, Mar) Smith, 11 of Jamaica, 1. I., .1 gr< il 
granddaughtei ol [onathan I'ownsend, of Oyster Bay, When St, Leger laid 
iii . to Fori Schuyler, having accompanied her husband there, she rendered 
important service to the garrison, where she was delivered ol her first-born, a 
son, who, while .1 youth, was afterwards losl at sea, 

Vftei serving foui \,.n. and eight months, he resigned, on the soth ol 
March, 1780, and settled in New Vork City, where he became a bookkeeper in 
the Bank ol New Vork, the first bank ol that city, organi ed in \\ \ b) G> ueral 
Hamilton, with General McDougall its first president, His name appears, in 
the firsl New York Cit) Directory, published in 1786, as an accountant 
He was buried in Prink) Church-yard His name appears on the Half 
r.u Roll. 

EDWARD WILLIAM r \ IT, his eldest grandson, eldest son of his second 
s,m, Edward I'app, ".is admitted in 1858, He served on the Standing Com 
mttiiv, and for man) years acted .is Assistant Treasurer, 

. I Inlul 



I III I.I II I \ < ■ I III 

PETER TAULMAN 

Captain Sappers and Miner \i 
Km ii in i 765. Died "ii tin 1'. Ill i.l I in 1 ml" 1 , 1835 

His iir. 1 military service appears i" have been .is .l non-commi ;ioned 
officei in the isl New York Battalion Colonel John Lashei organized on the 
1 |M ..I September, [776, and composed of the several companies ol troop 
known as 1 In "Prussian Blui >," " Swcgo Rangei ," ' Rangei ," " Eusileei 
"Hearts "I Oak," "Grenadiers," " Light Infantry," "Sportsmen," " German 
Fusileers," " Light Horse," and " Artillery." 

In 177(1 '"' ioined the Ni iw Vork Continental Vrtillery as a Sergeant in 
Colonel Lamb's New Vork Artillery, and was a valuable officer, exhibiting zeal 

and c agi . partii ularly in the eventful campaign of >777, and al Monmouth, 

when in was wounded. 

He served as Adjutant ol Colonel Oliver Spencer's (additional) Regimenl ni 
New Vork .mil New I' 1 1 \ , Continental Infantry, and was in General Sullivan's 
Expedition in 1779. Upon the organization "I the Corps ol Sappers and 

Miners he was app ted .1 Lieutenant in it, .mil subsequently its Captain 

Lieutenant. He also participated in the final campaign which ubstantiallj 
ended the war, the surrendei "i Lord Cornwallis al Vorktown, 

AM11 iIm war lir repn 1 nti d 1 In I ounty in the New Vork State Li gi 

I. iinns el 1 ■/ .s y 8. His name appears on the Hall Pay Roll. 

PETER HARMANUSTA1 LMAN, his eldest son, was admitted in 1 
ami 1 1 n •( I on the 10th "i February, 1874, seventy-six years ol agi 

\\ ll.l.l AM WALLACE TAULMAN, his grand on, 1 Idi il on ol thi la t, 
was admitted in 1 876. 



ADAM TEN BROECK 

Ensign 1*/ Vew York Regiment. 

Appointed Ensign ol the Eighth Company ol the 1 1 New Vork Regimenl 
1 1 1 on 1 Van Schaicl on th< 19th ol fune, [781, and continued in the 

■ unt il mu iteri d out. 



,}lo I II! mh w [\ Of I III CINCINNATI. 

JOHN C. TEN BROECK 

Captain ist New York Regiment. 

Died on the ioth of August, 1835, in Columbia County, N. Y. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant, in the 1st New York Regiment, on the ist ol 
March, 1776. Arranged by the Committee of Convention, on the zist of 
November, ■ 7 7 f >, as Lieutenant of McKean's Company of the ist New York 
Regiment. Promoted to be Captain of the Eighth Company of the same on 
the 5II1 ol April, 17N1, and served as such until mustered out. 

He left three daughters surviving him — Maria, Mrs. Joseph Ketchum ; 
Anna, Mrs. Thomas Ilillhouse, and Catharine, the wife of the Rev. Maurice 
Dwight. His name appears on the Half Pay Roll. 

WILLIAM SWETLAND KETCHUM, his eldest great-grandson, was 
admitted to the succession in 1886. 



ALEXANDER THOMPSON 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Born in 1759. Died at West Point on the 28th of September, 1809. 

He was Commissary of Military Stores in 1778. Appointed, on the 31st ol 
May. 1771). Second Lieutenant of the 2d Regiment, Continental Corps of Artil- 
lery — Colonel Lamb's — and was in Captain John Doughty's Company. Sub 
sequently at West Point, by Artillery Brigade orders, issued on the 7th of 
November, 1780, he was its Adjutant, and served as such until mustered 
out. 

After the war he was appointed Captain- 1. untenant of Sebastian Bauman's 
New York Militia Regiment of Artillery, on the 4th of October. [786, and 
promoted to be Captain on the 1st of October, 1 7 S 7 , and Major on the 9th of 
( Ictober, 1 793. 

Appointed Captain in the ist Regiment, United States Artillery, on the 2d 
of June, 1791, and served until honorably discharged the service on the ist ol 
June, [802, when he was appointed Military Storekeeper at West Point, which 
office he held until his decease. 

He married Amelia de Hart,* of Morristown, N. J., by whom he had a 
large family of children. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



sin d.r many years received .ml from the Society. 



Till SOCIETY Of THE I INI INNA1 I. 31 I 

ALEXANDER BALDWIN THOMPSON, his eldest grandson, was 
admitted in 1842, and served as Secretary from 1855 until Ids decease, on the 
8th of May, 1859, at 47 years of age. 

ALEXANDER RAMSAY THOMPSON, Ins great grandson, eldest sur- 
viving son of the last, was elected to membership in 1S76. 

HENRY TIEBOUT 

Captain \st New York Regiment. 

Died in February, 1826. 

Appointed Second Lieutenant Colonel John Lasher's Regiment of New 
York Volunteers — on the 14th of September, 1775. 

On the 21st of September, 1775, the Committee of Safety were petitioned 

as follows by the officers of the Battalion, the officers belonging to the com- 

panies of Artillery, Light Horse, 1 lussars and sundry officers belonging to the 

different Beats in the City of New York : 

"Thai in ill' present Critical Situation of the Publick affairs of the Colonies with the 
Mother Country, They conceive it to In- a matter of tin- utmost consequeno to thi 1 iberties ol 
Vrai 1 ica, that every member of the community capable of bearing arms should acquaint himself 
with Military I tiscipline, in order (if possible) to avert the distresses which arc now hanging over 
them An.l beinfj convinced that the Safety of a Nation would In- lunger preserved bj 1 rerj 
Citizen being a Soldier, than by particular persons solicited for that purpose. They proceed to 
critizize a Regulation, fixing times of assembling the Beats as too far distant from each other, 
and ask that il I" weekly, fur the three months ensuing, with a monthly field day fur each 

Battalion, as necessary to effectually answer the intenti 1 th : being embodied: other ways 

they fear it will be in a ^rcat measure defeated." 

Amongst the sixty-three signatures, headed by Coljnel Lasher, were those 
1.1 Major Sebastian Bauman, Captain Henry Tiebout and Lieutenant Francis 
Lewis, Jr. 

At a meeting of officers held on the 29th of January, 1776, the question 
was submitted — 

" Whethei the officers present are willing, that the Battalion to which they belong, engagi 
as a Battalion in the cause of litis country, on the terms and com lit ions offered by the Committee 
of Safety for the Province of New York, in answer, to certain questions proposed to them b) 1 
committee of olficcrs from the said meeting." 

Thirty votes wire equally divided. Bauman and Tiebout voting with the 
Colonel, carried ii in the affirmative. 

Promoted to be Captainoi the 3d New York Regiment — C<?/<?«*/ Gansevoort's 
— on the 2rst of November, 1776, and subsequently transferred to the 1st New 
York Regiment — Colour/ Van Schaick's — serving until mustered out. His 
name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



S I -' THE sol II I \ OP I HE eiNCINN VI I. 



THOMAS TILLOTSON 

Surgeon General of the Northern Department. 

Born in 1751. Died on the 5th of May, [832. 

At the time of his decease the Society issued the following General Ordei 

"New York, May nth, 1832 The acting President, with deep regret, announces to tin 
member ol the Society, the death ol another "l their venerable compatriots and friends, Dr. 
Phomas Tillotson lie died at his country seat near Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, on Sunda) 
I 1st, in the 81st year ol his age. 

1 nilotson was an .il>k and zealous advocate ol the American Revolution ; highl) 
gifted bj nature and improved b) education, he devoted 1 1 i — - talents and himsell to the promotion 
ol nil! National Independence. He was appointed by Congress, Ph\ rician and Surgeon General 
ol the Northern Hospil il Department ol the \nnv. and served in that capacity until the close "I 
the Revolutionary War. \fter the peace "I 1783, he was several times elected to the Legisla 
ture, and was in the yeai 1 801, and again in [808, appointed Secretary of this State. Always of 
.1 di licate constitution, he was, in [808, compelled to decline public employment, and passed the 
remainder ol his life in the bosom "l his family, Hi enjoyed (to him and to us) the heartfelt 
satisfaction, ol living to see the United States prosperous and happy, beyond liis most sanguine 
expi elation : 

" The members <>l the Society are requested to wear the usual badge "I m >urning for thirty 
days, in memorj "I theii deceased companion, bj ordei "I Majoi 1 leneral. 

" Chari.es Graham, MORGAN LEWIS, /. . nt." 

lie married on the m\ ol February, 1 7 7 • >, Margaret, daughter of fudge 
Robert R. Livingston, of Clermont, .1 sister of Colonel Henry Beekman Living 
Ston. 

In 1790 he pun li ised lol No. 1 in the Schuyler patent, al Rhinebeck, where 
he lived, and in the sum' year represented Dutchess County in the New York 
State Assembly and his district in the State Senate from 1790 until 1 800, when 
he was chosen Secretary of State. In the year 1801 he was elected as a Repre- 
sentative to Congress, bu( his duties at . Mliain requiring his presence, he did 
not attend. He served as Secretary of Slate until [807, when he retired from 
public life, llis youngest son Howard enlisted in the Navy during the War of 
1S1 j, and was killed at the age ol' seventeen. llis name appears on the Half- 
Pay Roll. 

ROBERT LIVINGSTON TILLOTSON, his eldest son, was admitted in 

1871, :\w,\ died at his residence, near Rhinebeck, in 1878. 

lit (WARD Tl LLOTSON, eldest son of the last, was admitted in 1879. 



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WILLIAM TORREY* 

Lieutenant H'azen's Regiment. 

Died on the 8th of October, 1831, in New York City. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society, having signed 
its Roll apparently in duplicate. He appears to have met with the New S ork 
S01 iet) on the 4th of July, 1803, and from 1804 i" 1814 was chosen a member 
of the Standing Committee. At his decease the following general order was 

issued : 

" New York, ( let. r2th, [831.— The Vice-President, willi sincere regn 1, announces to the 
membei ol thi Societj thai William Torre) . an aged and respected member <>f the Society, has 
departed iliis life. I le died, on the 8th inst., of a lingering and painful illness. Mr. Torrey was, 

during the Revolutionary War, a Lieutenant in Colonel Hazen's regiment, and in all his c lucl 

e\ I gri il braverj and attention to liis duties ; and although from his situation, he had not 

the honor of any particular distinction, yel hi had the merit— and great it was in those times ol 
having devoted himseli to his countrj causi and by his services promoted the great event of 
.mi emancipation from a foreign dominion, and of the establishmenl ol a free and independent 
government in these United Stati 

" From shortness of notice, the members arc di barred from atti nding the funeral ol their 

deceased brother and companion, yel the) can pay. and are requested to pay to him, th 

honot "l wearing the badge of mourning for thirtj da) B) order of 

" Charles Graham, Secretary. Major-General MORGAN LEWIS, Viet Pi rident." 

His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll as Lieutenant of Massachusetts 



ROBERT I ROUP 

stall rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-Camp. 

Born in \<\\ York City in 1756. Died there on the 1 1 1 1 1 of January, [832 
When the war broke out he was Studying law in the office id John fa , 

having graduated at Kings College in 1774. He entered the service as an 
Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Nathaniel Woodhull, with rank ol" I 
truant. In the Battle of Long Island he was taken prisoner on the j;flioi 
August, 1776, and confined in the Jersey prison-ship at Wallaboul and after 
ward in the Prevosl Prison in Nt w York City. In the Spring of 1777 he was 
exchanged, and joined the American Army in New Jersey, in the following 

August, Gates appointed linn on liis Stall as one of Ins Aides, with the rank ol 
Lieutenant-Colonel, and as such he served in the battles of Saratoga and the 

final surrender ol Burgoyne at Schuylerville, on the 17th ol October, 1777. 



no i"n in the Massachusetts Societ) 



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Iii February, 1778, he was appointed by Congress, Secretarj to the Board 
of War, which sat at the seat of Government until dissolved in the following 
year, when he retired from the service and continued Ins study of the law with 
Judge William Patterson, afterward the Governor of New Jersey. 

After peace was declared, he was appointed Judge of the District Court oi 
the United States for Now York, and in 1786 he was elected a member of the 
siiic Legislature. He was a trustee of Columbia College from 1811 until 
1817. In [822 he published several important papers as to the policy of the 
siat. with the canals, and also in regard to the claims respecting Trinity 
Church. For many years he resided at Geneva, N. Y., having married 
Janet, the daughter of Peter Goelet, by whom he had two sons, who died 
unmarried, and two daughters, Louisa, and Charlotte (Mrs Jann s L. Brincker- 
llis name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 



JOHN TRUMBULL 

S ■'!' rank of Colonel .;//./ Deputy Adjutant-General. 

Born at Lebanon, Conn., on the <>th of June. 1756 Died on the toth ol 
November, 1843, at 15 Amity Street. New York City. 

lie was the youngest son of the first Governor, Jonathan Trumbull, and 
Faith Robinson. Entered the junior class at Harvard and graduated in 177.;. 

The artist Copley being in Boston, Trumbull, on his first visit, found him 
entertaining some friends, arrayed in a crimson velvet suit with gold buttons, 
which so impressed him, that he determined to take up the palette as his profes 
sion in life. 

The pending war with Great Britain now attracting his attention, he joined 
the 1st Connecticut, Continental Regiment, then stationed at Roxbury, as its 
Adjutant. Here his talent for drawing became of service, furnishing General 
Washington with a sketch of the enemy's works around Boston, which he had 
procured by cautiously observing the British lines, noting the position of their 
guns, and a deserter coming into camp, giving him the information necessar) 
lor its completion. 

In \ugiist, 1775, he was appointed an Aia Canipb) G neral Washington, 
w ith t he rank ol' 1/. 1 

Appointed tdjufa/it-General of the Northern Department, on the 

-•sih of June, 1 7 7 <>. with the staff rank of Co/one/, and stationed at Ticonderoga, 
where he reconnoitered Mount Detune S Loaf Hill — with General 

Wayne, who reported that it commanded the Post, and, suggesting the neces 



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sity of its occupation. Subsequently, when the enemj did arrive, St. Clair 
found, when too late, thai they could not only observe from il all his move- 
ments, but actually commenced throwing hot shot into the Post, which i 
him to abandon it and seek safety in that well conducted retreat with the 
troops which became the nucleus of the army that shortly afterward prostrated 

the Briti h power. 

The enemy having landed at Newport, R. I , General Vmold was ordered 
there to -.ppi.se them and assume command of the militia, 1'rumbull to ai i om 
pain him as ins Adjutant- General, with headquarters fixed at Providence, and 
whili there he received his commission, dated from September, instead ol the 
previous June, lie returned it, declining its acceptance, unless dated from tin 
actual tune ol service, which Congress refusing, resulted in Ins retiring from 
the army on the j.'d ol February, 1777, and tin termination ol his briel I ul 
honorable military 1 areer 

After a visit to his home at Lebanon, he want to Boston to study the works 
ol Copley. In May, 1780, visiting Paris and reaching London in August, he 
placed himself as a pupil under Benjamin West, until November, when he 
heard of the execution ol Majoi Andre. Lodging in the same house with an 
American offici 1, foi whom a warrant had been issued, instructions were 
to arrest Trumbull at the same time and secure his papers, and he was 
mitted to prison. Well knowing that Trumbull had many enemies, Wesl 
hastened to the palace, and obtaining an audience, explained to the King 
that the pristine ol Colonel Trumbull in London was merely professional as 
Ins pupil. George 111. replied : 

" West, I have known you long, and I don't know that \ evei received an; infoi 

ni.ition In. in '..in nn am subject, I therefore full) believe all thai you have ;aid 01 

ioi regret thi si m.it inn of th young man In a I cannot do anything to assisi 

him, as lie is in the power of the law, ami I cannot interfere. Ar< In-- parents livin 

Mr. West answered that his father was. 

" 1 hen I sincerely pity him Go immediately to Mr. Trumbull and give him nn 1 uram 
that in the worst possible event of thi law, his life will be afi 

While in prison hi copied the " St. Jerome of Correggio," which is now in 
the Trumbull Gallery.* The British Government, aftei eight months, admitted 

him to bail, by special order of the King, on condition of his leaving the king- 
dom within thirty days, his sureties being West and Co] 

Crossing over to Amsterdam, he embarked for home, where he did ma 

arrive unt il January, 1 7 

* The Trumbull Gallery he presented to Yali Colli 61,000 during his life, 

and the receipt applied to th< education ol itud 



316 I ill SOCIETY OF 1111 CINCINNATI. 

He revisited England in 1783, renewing his studies under West, and painted 
in 1785, " Priam carrying back to his palace the body of Hector." 

In 1786 he began painting lus Scenes of the Revolution, the "Rattle 
of Bunker Hill" and the " Death of Montgomery" He painted the portrait 
of Mr. Adams in London, and Mr. Jefferson in Tans, and the " Sortie of the 
Garrison of Gibraltar" he sold to Sir Francis Baring for five hundred guineas, 
a copy of which is now in the Boston Atheneeum. 

The first session of Congress, to be held in New York City in December, 
17S0. called him home to paint the Signers who were to be present there. 

Washington sat for him at Trenton and Princeton, for full-length portraits 
for the Cities of New York, Charleston, S. C, and tor the Connecticut Cincin- 
n iti Society, which was subsequently presented by them to Yale College. He 
also painted several officers of the Revolution, traveling from New Hampshire 
to South Carolina. 

In 1794 he went abroad again as the private secretary of John Jay, then 
Envoy Extraordinary to Great Britain, visited Paris, but in 1796 returned to 
England upon his being chosen one of the Commissioners to adjust the 
disputed points of the treaty. 

In fune 1S04 he returned hom-\ resuming his profession in New York City, 
but the embarrassment of commerce so affected his profession he was again 
compelled to go abroad. 

The second War for Independence caused his return to New York, when, 
in 1 S 1 6, commissioned by the United States Government, he painted those 
four historical pictures — six by nine feet — now in the Rotunda of the Capitol 
al Washington : 

•• Declaration of Independence," 

■■ Capture of Burgoyne at Schuylerville," 

•' Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at \ orktown," 

" Resignation of Washington at Annapolis." 

I'he historj of his country he recorded with his sword, pen and pencil. 

He was an original member of the Connecticut Society, but met with the 
New York, on the 4th of July, 1804, serving on the Standing Committee 
after [820, and elected, in (833, Vice-President, lie presented the Societ) 
with a portrait of their old Sergeant at-Arms — Bryan Rossiter — now in the 
gallery of the New Vork Historical Society. 

rhe following general order was issued at his death : 

" New York, Novembei nth, [843. — The President, with deep regret, announces to the 
members of the Society the death <>l their venerable friend, Colon John Trumbull, an original 
member, who departed this life on Friday morning, the tenth inst . after :i protracted illness, in 
the eighty-seventh year of his age, at the residence of Mrs Lentner, [5 Amity Street. < 



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Trumbull, at an early period of our Revolutionary struggle, entered the army, and was attached 
to thi military family of Genet ' Washington, whosi warm regard hi thi close oi 

the war. His milifar) lifi i so familiar to most <>f oui i rial it would be superfluous to 

n ipitulate, suffice it to say that in all his capai ities he was a distinguished and meritorious man 
II as an exemplar} 

"The Societ) will be debarred the melancholy satisfaction "1 attending his respected remains 
to the grave, thej having at his request, been removed to New Haven, but they will wear the 
usual badge of mourning for thirty days. By order of 

"Edward P Marcellin, Secretary. Ma • -Gen ra/MORGAH I EWIS, President." 

His name- appears I'll the Half-Pay Roll. 



THOMAS TURNER 

Captain jt/i Massachuseth Regiment. 

He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society. Mel with the 
New York after 1787, until he removed to Charleston, S. C, when- he met with 
the South Carolina Society until his decease. 

On the 8th of May, 1776, he entered the service in the 14th Continental 
Regiment — Colonel Gamaliel Bradford. Appointed Captain in Henry Jackson's 
16th Regimenl on the 14th ol Vpril, 1779. Transferred to the 9th and subse- 
quently to Brook's Regiment, the 7th Massachusetts, in 1783, serving with it 
to the end of the war. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



JOHN FRANCIS VACHER 

Surgeon 4I/1 New York Regiment. 

Born in France. Died on the 4th of Dect mbi r, 1807, at New York. 

He graduated as a physician, at the College ol Chirurgie de Montpellier, in 
1769. Came to America, and when the War for Independence commei 
offered Ins services to the Committee of Arrangements at Fishkill, who, on the 
7th of February, 1777, appointed him Surgeon of the 4th Batallion, at that time 
commanded b) Colonel Henry I!. Livingston. 

In the next Winter he took the following oath of allegiance. 

" I, John 1''. Vacher, Surgeon 4th N Y Reg do ickm vledgi thi United States oj 

Anurica to bi n Ind pendent oreign States, au,\ declare thai the people tin reef, owe no 

allegience or obedience to Georg, the Third, A ind I n ounce, refuse and 

obi lience to him; and 1 do swear thai 1 will oi the utmost ol mj 

support, maintain and defend the aid 1 nited St it against the said George the Third, 



3 i s nil - i \ hi i in , i\i i\ \ 

his In: i - and his or theii tors, assistants and adherents, and wi'l serve the 

United States iri the office ol Surgeon, which I now hold, with fidelity, ai o the best of 

im skill and understanding, JOHN 1 VACHER 

" Swo inr in i 'ainp \ allej Forge, 

" m.i\ 26th, i Enoi ii Poor B • 

In the Indian Campaig i ol 1779 he accompanied General Sullivan, and the 
following is taken from the report of Dr. Stephen McCrea, 5 ', in com- 
mand : 

[oh 1 \ ichei was Surgeon ol the 4th New York Regiment, and such was the 
-i. ai ol our Hospital that 1 employed the Doctor to do the duty ol Physician and Surgeon in ii 
under my immediate command, from the beginning of June to the beginning ol Noverar* 

/>'■ (//James Clinton certifies he served 

" Until the Reduction of the Army, in 1 7S 1 . during which time he behaved himsell as a 
Gentleman, ami attentive to his duty as Surgeon, and that he applied to me to be continued in 
the service, the two Standing Colonels (Van Schaick and Van Cortlandt) having made choice of 
iheii form - -. bj that means left no vacancj for h 



in in 



Under the Act of Congress ol the -->st of October, 17 So. he was deranged, 
alter serving his country faithfully for five years in her time of need. 

He became a naturalized citizen on the 27th of July, nder a special 

act of the New Nik State Legislature, passed in May, 1784. The Council of 

lintment, over which G< G< orge Clinton presided in 1787, 

him a 1 , Stoutenburgh's Regiment ol State Troops. 

The following letter to him from Ban >i) Steuben is dated March. 1701 : 

"My pi \k Frienp. The sentiments which you express in y 1 verj 

Hattcrini a> great thankfu I verj mortified if there 

was an II for you. 1 

a long time, I myself with th. he human race. I 

know mine, and require that mj should look upon them with indulgence. Justice 

demands the Such men as have more virtues than weakness, are cstimil 

rhis is the Religion which 1 profess ('an you after this, di moment my 

friendship fot 

■• 1 [hank 1 charming Si It is a refound treasure, that I have 

more than twenty lour years 1 thought to have need of an introduction, but my memory 
ore fruitful than 1 thought, and it is only the word and that ' /•-.■ .■■.' which 1 ask 

you to explain 

" Here is the small abridged Dictionary oi the table, more useful to tl \ polio, than 

to a gra M '■ from 

one win ectionate friend and servant , ST1 1 BEN 

He resided in Fulton Street. New York City, practising his profession, until 
se, when he was buried in St. Paul's Church yard, having married 
Sarah, the daughter of Joseph Potter, of Madison, X. J. lie met with the 
Mew 1 e\ si. ,!i Sot iety on the 4th of July. 1802, 



I III si y HI 1 III IIM I N V All. ,^ny 

His only son, Irani in, died unmarried, his three daughters, Sarah (Mrs. 
Van Vorst), Eliza (Mrs. Francis True), ami Fahnii Mis. Robert Gilchrist), 
surviving him, 1 1 is name appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

JOHN VAN VORST, his eldest grandson, was admitted by the Mew Vorl 
State Society in 1 849, 



PHILIP VAN CORTLANDT 

Colonel 2d New York Regiment. 

Born on the 1st of September, 1749, in Stone Street, near the 1 lattery, in 
New York City. Died unmarried, on the sth of November, iH^i.at the Manor 
House. 

Mr was the eldest sun of Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt and 
his wife, Johanna, daughter of Gilbert Livingston, and a great grandson oi 
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who married Gertrude, the daughter of Philip 
Pieterse Van Schuyler. His grandfather, Philip Van Cortlandt, upon his 
decease, entailed the Manor to his eldest male descendant; but his eldest 
grandson, Philip, whose father sided with the Crown, became a Colonel in the 
British service, and so was unable to substantiate his claim after the war. 

At the age of fifteen he was placed at the Coldenham Academy, under the 
care of Professor Adams, until, at the completion of his studies, when he 
became proficient in the profession of a land surveyor. Governo) Tryon com- 
missioned him Major oi Colonel James Ver Planck's Regiment, raised on the 
Manor, before the Revolutionary War broke out. When it did, he threw his 
commission in the fire, and, notwithstanding the urgent requests of Ins family's 
loyal relations, took issue with his father and espoused the cause of the Oppo 
nents oi the Crown. Governor Tryon and his wife visited the Manor House in 
hopes i't persuading the family to remain loyal ; but finding it useless, left, 
when young Philip offered his services to and was recommended by the Mili- 
tary Committee, and on the 18th of June, 1775, was commissioned by Congress 
Lieutenant-Colonel ot the 4th Batallion of the New Vork Continental Infantry, 
marching with it to Ticonderoga. Having procured a leave of absence, and 
meeting Washington at the house of Ins relative James Van Cortlandt, in 
Westchester County, he app linti d him at Kingsbridge on his Staff. 

General McDougall wrote to the Military Committee : 

\ / 1 xtenani 1 «, Cortlandt is the oldest of thai rank, 1 tal ■ it for granted, 1 hi i 
young gentleman ol famil) and spirit, he will be appointed to the command ol mi old 1 gimi nt 



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Washington now filled up a commission for him as Colonel, dated the 30th 
of November, 1776, assigning him to the command of the 2d New York Regi- 
ment, in place of Colonel Ritzema. He reached Ins new command at Trenton 
the morning after the battle, when it was ordered to Fishkill, where it assisted 
in the protection of the passes of the Hudson, until ordered to the relief of 
Fort Schuyler, up the Mohawk Valley. When St. Leger was defeated, it was 
ordered back, and joined General Poor's Brigade, opposing the advance of 
Burgoyne in Saratoga, until his surrender, on the 17th of October, 1777, when 
it moved down the river to Kingston, which Sir Henry Clinton had burned, 
just before his hasty retreat to New York, and joined Washington at White 
Marsh, going into Winter quarters at Valley Forge. 

At the request ol Washington he remained in command of the post at 
Radner's Meeting House, while Ins regiment, in pursuit of the British retreating 
from Philadelphia, was engaged without him in the action at Monmouth. He 
rejoined it at Poughkeepsie, and resumed the command during the Winter in 
the contonments on the Hudson at New Windsor. In the Spring of the next 
year, 1 7 7 < *, his regiment, consisting of six hundred men, was ordered to join 
General Sullivan at Fort Penn. Defeating the Indian chief Brant, in a 
skirmish on the way, he reached Wilkesbarre, marching thirty miles through 
the Wilderness in thirty days, and took part in the defeat and total rout of 
Butler's Tories and Brant's Indians, laying their country waste all the way to 
lioga. lie then brought Ins regiment to Morristown, going into Winter 
quarters there, and sitting ><n Arnold's Court Martial .11 Philadelphia in January. 
In the Spring ol 1780 he brought his regiment again to the defence of the 
Hudson, with his (amp at West Point, when he was selected to command one 
ol the regiments of light infantry, of the two brigades under I a Fayette contem- 
plated for a se< ret expedition, but which was temporarily abandoned. I a Fayette 
then went to Virginia, joining General Greene in the Southern Campaign. 
On the .-ist ol October, 1780, Congress passed the acl consolidating the 
nents of the different States, and New York's Quota was reduced to two, 
as follows : The 1st and 3d under Co lei Van Sehaiek, the 2d 4th, 5th and 
what was left of Col ■:,'.' James I ivingston's, and the New York portion of 
Colonel Spencer's (additional) Regiment, under Colonel Van Cortlandt, taking 
effect by the general order of the 1st of January, 17S1. In the following Fall 
he was ordered by Washington to proceed with Ins regiment as the rear guard 
of the army, on the way to Yorktown. There he joined La Fayette and 
Steuben, and during the siege commanded the New York Brigade in the 
trenches until Cornwallis surrendered, when he took charge oi the British 
prisoners in their march to Fredericksburgh, and finally went into Winter 
quartei s at Pompton, N.J. 



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In the Summer ol 1782, Ins command encamped .11 Ver Planck's Point, 
on the Hudson, near Ins home, and in the following Wmtet went into Inns 
at New Windsor, lie was present there at the meeting called by the Com- 
mander-in-Chiei to considei the disaffection that had ig tin- 

in 11 ips. 

I pun the disbandment of the Yrmy, he presented the colors ol the -•<! New 
York Regiment, to Governor George Clinton, at Poughkeepsie, and retired to 
his home. 

In 1783, Congress gave him the rank of Brigadier-General for his services 
and gallant conduct .it the Siege of Yorktown He served as a member in the 
New York Assembly and State Senate for several sessions, and held. Ins scat in 
1 ongress from 1 79.; to 1809. 

When La Fayette \i-ned the United Siaies in 1 S24, he entertained and 
accompanied him on his tour. 

For many years he served as Treasurer ol the New York State Societj ol 

the ( 'meinnat i. 

He died at Ins residence in the eighty-second year of his age ; and this 
great and distinguished veteran's remains now lie mouldering in the private 
burying ground of the family, near the old Manor I louse, overlooking the most 
pii turesque and romantic portion ol the I liaison. 

The following General Order was issued by the Society on the 9th ol Novem- 
ber, 1 83 1 : 

" ["he Vice-President, in the discharge ol his official duty, announces to tin members "I the 
Societj 1I1. 11 theii venerable and respected friend and companion, General Philip Van Cortlandt, 
departed this life, at his residence in Westchester County, on Saturday, the : :i> insl , in the 

eight] second year of liis age. Afflicting as this iti 1 Providenci mu 1 b to thi 

members of the Society, with whom th< deceased w iated, it is to be rem< mbi n 

that he died full "f years, ami possessed, to the last, the esteem and confidem fellow 

I It I ills. 

" Ce rural Van Cortlandt was, at the time ol lus death, the oldest surviving officei ol his 
rank in the New York Line of the Continental Army. He was .1 Major ol the Colonial Militia 
pri vious to the Revolution ; and in the year 177; he was 1 1 ned to the same rank in the 

Revolutionary Army; was appointed Lieutenant- Colonel in February, 177 1 '. and C "I the 

2d New York Regiment in the month ol November of the sarin- year, and at thi 1 los< ol thi 
commissioned at 1 ' r-General. He was in the Battle of Monmouth Court-] 

New fersey, and in the actions "t Stillwater and Bemis' Heights in September and Oi 
1777, and had the honor to be present at the surrendei ol thi Briti h irmie commanded bj 
Bi rgoyne and /. rd < 'ornwallis. 

" 1 eneral Van ( lortlandt's regiment was, upon several ca i n o implimented tar its disci- 
pline and appearance in the orders ol the 1 'ommander-in < 

" In the year 1793 G \ in Cortlandt was elected a member of Congress, and continued 

a member ol that body until about thi yeai 1- , when he declined public emplo 

to hi farm, near Croton, upon the North Ri 

" The members of the Society an requi ted to weai the usual bad fn 1 r thirty 

days, in memory of their d I friend, MORGAN LEWIS, ■ ident. 

" Charli Graham S ■ tary." 



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PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, Lieutenant-Governor, his brother, was in 
[832 admitted in the succession. He in. mud, first, Catherine Clinton, but had 
no issue by her, and, secondly, Ann Stevenson, He died on the 13th of June, 
[848, at the Manor House at Croton Landing. 

PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, his nephew, only son of the last, was 
admitted in 1853. He married Catherine Beck, and died on the nth of July, 
[884, at the Manor House at Croton I anding, having served for many years as 
one oi tin- Standing Committee. 

JAMES STEVENSON VAN CORTLANDT, only surviving son of the 
last, was admitted in [885, 



BARTHOLOMEW VANDERBURGH 

Ensign 2J New Y01 X- Regiment. 

Having entered the service, he was, on the rst of May, r 7 78, appointed 
an Ensign in the 5th New York Regiment Colonel Lewis Pu Hois. 

AtuT the consolidation of the New York Line, on the 1st of January, 1781, 
he appears to have been arranged in the 2d New York Regiment — Colonel \ an 
Cortlandt's and serving until mustered out on the tst oi January, [782. His 
name appeals on the Hall-Pay Roll as Lieutenant. 

HENRY VANDERBURGH 

Captain iii ,\..v York Regiment. 

Born at ["roy, V Y., in 1760, Hied on the 12th of April, [812, at Yin 
cennes, Ind., leaving three sons and six daughters, 

At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the 5th New York Regiment, and after 
the Continental Establishment ol the Quota for the state of New York, on the 
.■1st oi November, 1776, was appointed Lieutenant oi Rosecrans' Company of 
the 5th Ne« York Regiment, his commission having been signed by John Jay, 
then President of the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, and under the 
reorganization it appears he received another, dated on the 20th ol fune, 1779, 
and signed by fohn Hancock. 



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Promoted Captain on the 30th ol March, 1780, and subsequently transferred 
to the -mI New Vork Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt — and served with ii 
until mustered out. 

Some years alter the war was over, he settled in the Territory of Indiana. 

The following is from the Evansville Enquirer: 

"The exact time "l his coming to thi then rerritorj "l Indiana is not known, but most 
probably in 1788, as ii is known that in February, 1790, he was married in Vincennes, Knox 

County (at which place he resided until hii death in 1812), to Frances Cornoyer, the daugl 1 

Pierri Cornoyer, one of the most respected ol the ancient inhabitants of ' Posl Vincennes,' then 
largely engaged in the Indian trade His wife still survives him, and is now a re idem ol Vin 
cennes, In 1 7< j r he was appointed by Arthur Saint 1 lair, then '( ommander-in-( hiel and 
Governor "I the Territory ol the 1 nited States northwest "l the River Ohio,' Justice of the 
Peace and Judge ol Probati ol Knox County. In [799 he was oni ol the I > gislativi Council >l 
the Northwest ["erritory, which held its sessional 1 incinnati, and was elected President ol thai 
body. In [800 he was appointed fudge ol the Indian Territory by Presidenl Adams. His 
circuit comprehended within iis boundaries what now constitute the lour States of fnd ma 
Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon in, ind during his term he actually held court the same yeai in 
three oi Hi. abovi named States, to wit : at Vincennes, Indiana; Kaskaski, Illinois, and Di 
Michigan. All these plao s being embraced in his Judicial < ircuil as fudge of the Indian Terri 
tory. His journeyii re\ on horseback, carrying his own provisions, through a wilderness 
occupied solelj In the Indian and die wild beast ol the forest, and the face of the whiti mar 
unseen, excepl at placi 1 when 1 ourt was held and their immediate vicinit) and even then thi 

population wi arci Full in years and full in honors, Judge Vanderburgh departed this 

life at \ nm Vpril 12, 1812, beloved and respected both in public and prn iti lifi bj all 

who knew him. Vanderburgh County may well be proud of her lim 1 ■ 

One of Ins granddaughters, Cora Le Roy, married General William North 
Belknap, Secretary of War, in 1861. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 



CORNKLIUS VAN DYCK 

Lieutenant-Colonel 1st New York h\ intent. 

lie leaded at Albany, and when the hostilities commenced between thi 
Colonies .ind 1 In t 'row 11 joined the Continental Army, and on the 28th of June, 

1775, u.i appointed a Captain in the 2d New Vork Regiment, 

Upon the Establishment id New York's Quota, on the 21 si of November, 

1776, he was promoted to be the Lieutenant-Colonel ol the 1st New Vork Regi- 
ment — Colonel Van Schaick's and served with it until mustered oul al thi 

of the war. 

In 1788 he represented Albany County in the New Vork State Legislal 
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



3^4 ' II I -' " I I ' ^ "I I HI CINCIN S'ATI, 

JOHN VAN DYK 

Captain- Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

Horn in New York City in 1753. Died on the 28th ol February, 1840. 

Admitted to the Societ) in 1798.* 

When the British ship-of war "Asia" fired on the City of Now York, he 
assisted in removing the guns from the Battery. He enlisted in the 1st 
Regiment ol Minute Men or Volunteer Infantry- Colonel John Lasher's — on 
the 14th of September, 1775, ami was one of the non-commissioned officers 
oi it. 

Appointed Lieutenant of Artillery, by the Provincial Congress of Newjersej 
on the 24th ol March, ■ 7 7 r», and in the following November, he was commis- 
sioned a First I untenant in the regular service, by the Continental Congress. 
It is claimed that subsequently, he was Captain-Lieutenant in Colonel John 
Lamb's .-d Regiment of Artillery, and at the conclusion of the war, by the Vet 
ol Congress, attained the rank of Major. 

He participated in the Battles ol I. one Island, the skirmish along the 
Harlem Heights, White Plains. Monmouth, Trenton, and was at the Surrender 
of Lord Cornwallis at Ybrktown. During the war, on a voyage for his health, 
he was captured by an English frigate, and underwent the horrors and suffer- 
ings of a confinement in the Jersey prison-ship, 

\'i,r the war he engaged in business in New York City, until appointed a 
clerk in the Custom House, which office he retained until his death. 

He married twice; by his first wife, Sarah C. Clark, he left no male issue. 
Mis second wife was Ann Center, by whom he had several sons.j 

FRANCIS VAN 1>\ K. his eldest son, was admitted in [S42, and died in 
1878 at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

I \MI S \ \N \i\ K, lus grandson, eldest son of the last, was admitted in 

irod iced from the Wai Offici stating 

One month 
... ih. 1! on Mr Van Dyke's Institu- 

f the ' i ward be considered .1 inemb 

rhich he failed 



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RUDOLPH VAN HOEVENBARGH 

Lieutenant 2d New) York Regiment. 

Died in 1826. 

He was appointed Ensign of the 4th New Yorl Regimenl on the 21st ol 
November, 1776, and promoted in be Lieutenant of the same on the 9th oi 
January, 1778. After the Consolidation of the New York Line, he was 
arranged in the 2d New York Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt's serving 
with it until mustered out. I lis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

DAVID VAN IIORNE 

Captain 4/// Massachusetts Regiment. 

Born in 1755. Died on the 12th ol May, 1801. 

Hi- was the only sort ol David Van Home, a resident ol New York, and 
when the first War for [ndependence broke out entered the service, and was 
commissioned a Captain in Henry Jackson's Regiment. 

In the year [768 he married Sarah Coventry Miller, by whom he had only 
one child, Augusta, the wife of Dr. Samuel Floyd, of New York City. On 
the occasion of the ceremonies connected with the death of Washington at 
Albany, on Thursday, the 9th of January, [800, he, with General Schuyler, 
Colonel Gansevoort, Captains John C. Ten Broeck, John II. Wendell and 
Stephen Lush, were the pall bearers in the funeral procession. 

He held the office ol Idjuta \ G lera ol the State ol New York until the 
27th of January. [801. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

DAVID VAN HORNE FLOYD, Ins eldest grandson, was admitted in 
[842. He married Elizabeth F. Kermit, and died in 1878, leaving onl) one 
child surviving him, Sarah (Mrs, Georgi Vingut). 

[EREMIAH VAN RENSSELAER 

Lieutenant and Paymaster \st New York Regiment. 

Born in 1740, Died on the 22d of February, 1 to, at Albany, N. Y. 

He was a descendant of Kiliaen Van Ri n :< I ler, the first Patroon of the 
Manor of Rensselaerwyck ; was the second sou of fohannes Van Renssa 
and Gertrude Van Cortlandt, and a brothet ol Catharine, Gen, al Schuyler's 






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w 1 1 « \ iii i graduating in 1758, al the Collcgi ol New In n, lie married 
luihili Hayard in 1761, l>v whom he had one son, [ohn, When the War for 
Independence broke oul he entered the service, and was, on the 28th ol May, 

6 appointed ■' in bMeeckci Company of the jd New Vork Regiment, 

and /' "ii the following itsl ol November, Vfti 1 the • onsolidation 

in was arranged, with the same rank, in the 1 si New York Regiment < ■ 
Van Schaick's and subscquentl) promoted i<> be Lieutenant, serving until 
musti red oul with hi: 1 egimenl 

He was elected in 1788 a membei ol the New Vork Assembly, held .1 seal 

in Congress, 1 1 1 , 19 to 1791, and appointed by the Legislature, on the 6th 

ol November, 1800, one ol the Presidential Electors, and on the 18th ol Vpril, 
1 1, elei ted the Li U << ni the State, His name appears on the 

Hall Ihn Roll 



NICHOLAS VAN RENSSELAER 



1 1 \ . .. ) . . 'it : me lit. 



IJorn at Greenbush in 1754. I 'nil on 1 In 19th of March, 1 1 
He was admitted b) tin Socicl) on the j.tli ol |uly, 1826, .. ■■. •■■ 1 
Mi was a iK". 1 1 nil. mi ol Kih. 11 n Van Rensselaer, the firsl Pa ol the 

\l .in. H ni Rensselaerwyck, and was the third son ol Kiliaen Van Rensselaei 
and Ariantje Schuyler, His grandfather, Hendrick, received from Ins elder 
and only brother, Kiliaen, the lowei Manoi ol Claverack and fifteen hundred 
acres ol 1 In' n 1 'i '1 1 Manoi at Greenbush, including the island in the Hudson 
K i\ i 1 

\\ hen 1 in' Revolution broke out he enlisted in th< 11 n ii 1 ,and was appoint! d 
S , 1 7/ ni the id Regiment, New Vork Continental Infantrj < olo . 

Van Schaick's on the 18th ol |une, 1775, and was with c?i a Montgomery 
in the Canada Campaign, where, at the storming ol Quebec, he and ( 

Livingston wen within a few feet of him when he and 1 1 'amp, 

, , f ohn Mi I'herson, fell, hi the Continental Establishment ol the Nr» 

Vork Quota he was, on the nst of November, 1776, appointed .' '. <t Lieut a 
ol ,. Graham's Companj ol the rst New Vork Regiment Colonel \ m 

Schaick's and promoted to 1 in the same on the 1st ol September, 

. ving until deranged, in 1781, b) the Vet ol Congress, 
He was appointed an I on the stafl ol General Schuyler, and was with 
St. Clair in his retreat from I'iconderoga, disputing the advanci ol Burgoyne's 



[ill OCIET; "I I Ml CINCl N ' \ I i 327 

\ 1 111 j .ill the u.i\ down to Stillwater and Bemis' Heights. Alter 1 In- sum ndei 
in was selei ted w> convey the intelligi m e to the terrified 1 in /.ens of Albany, 

Mrs. Catherine Van Rensselaei Bonney, in her "Historical Gleanings," 
di ^iii" iIm scene oi his arrival there on horseback, as follows : 

" Flying th gh thi city, whili thi 1 fficei cried aloud the cheerii ; Ii . ' Burgo 1 

1 taken and wi in ii 1 n Thi ceni was an enthusia tii , thi peopli (1< >< ki iij^ in 

throngs, ah 1 drawing him from hi 1 bacl eager to hear 1 1 at t the gl 

news . ii diffused joj and gladnei not onlj there, but throughout the Union. In Albanj thi 

event wai celebrated with much displa; was roasted wholi foi 1 1 is .1 pole pa sing 

1 1 ;h it and n ting tel pit, while a pair of cart-wheels, at the ends of the 

pole, wen used to turn it. \ hole wa dug in thi ground, in which, beneath the ox, a fin 

made While ki I pail ol alt water were applied with swabs, to keep the meat from 

burning, When roasted it was drawn through the principal streets, and the patriotii iccured a 

good slici \ stanl roat ol artillery wai kept up during thi day, In the evening, almost 

evet liousi in thi citj was illuminated. A largi pyramid ol 1 fagot , in thi centre of which 

1 1 a liberty pole, upporting on il top a barrel of tat wa let on fire on Pinkstei Mill, where 

inds the State Capitol, earl} in thi evening Thi capluri "I LJurgoync and hi i \ 

in pin 'I Ami rii an ■■ it h 1 onfidi nci < to I hi ii final ti iumph 

When thi remains of Montgomery wt n broughl down from < anada in July, 
1818, he was one ol thi pall b< an 1 in thi funeral obsequies .it Albany. 

'I he following letter to Ins brother Philip, datt d from Montreal, Novembt 1 
•' 1st, 177s. is interestin 

[ embrao thi opportunitj to inform you, thai I am in good health and hopi this may find 

you and ■•■•••> 1 imilj thi imi In thi first placi 1 must give you joy with • ui g daughter. 

In 1 in "' 1 place, I will inform you how I ivi carried our sii 1 t our enemii We laj 

at St. Johns six weeki ind four days bef on they surrendered, the first of thi instant they gavi 

up, thi 1 ;iti "I this instant, our General (Mont| lery) marched in thi: ["own withoul 1 ■■ 1 

gun, ' ■ 1 irletoi fit wilh twelvi .1 el well loaded ■■ ith provi ions and at unition, 

and ran down about forty mill below this place, when wi had a battery ol eight guns in thi 

vct) narrowi t pli the whole River, when they could not pars without being taken 

" They made an ittempt onci to go by, but thej 1 1 uch hoot fin that they wen forced 

to go back and out Royally followed them up verj closi and kcpl firing on them, till thei 

flag and madi capitulation 11 as one Schooner, loaded with powdet that they threw ill 

overboard. We tool thi twelvi irei iel .and the Brigadier General, one Lieutenant Colonel, three 

Majors, five Captains, i 1 ants and one hundred and thirteen privati , i» idi thi Sailors, 

that had a vast sight of provi ill tool ["hi flicers of our Battallion, are all 

resolved to staj till next Maj and wi an now our men ovet igi ta) till thai time, 

so you need not 1 pect mi homi till then, and if thi servici requires, I shall stay longer, 1 peel 
wi hall within three dayi march to Quebec, to take that tin ral i going off to-n h 

1 hall now n it and remain youi loving brother, 

" NH IKil 'S VAN Rl NSS] 1 AER." 

In 17,'Si he married Elsie Van Buren, b) whom he had tun suns, Kiliaen 
and Cornelius, and two daughters, Magdelene (Mrs. Peter Douv Beeckman) 
and Harriet Schuyler (Mrs. A. Herbert Witbeck . His namt appears on the 
11. iii Pa) Roll. 



328 rHE SOCIETY Ol rHE CINCINNATI. 

(JOOSE VAN SCHAICK 

1 I \ .. / 1 st New Yoi k Regiment. 

Born at Albany on the s t li of September, 1736. Died there on the 4th of 
July, 1 789. 

He was the second son of Sybrant ( I Van Schaick, Mayor of Albany from 
1756 to 1761. Al the age ol nineteen he joined the expedition against Crown 
Point as .1 Lieutenant, when the Frem h and Indians were defeated in Septem- 
ber, 1755. by Sir William Johnson, and was, in the following May, promoted to 
Captain. In the expeditions against Fort Frontenac and Niagara he was 
promoted to be the Majoi of Si> William Johnson's Regiment in 1 7 5 <> and 
Lieutenant- Colonel of the 1st New York Regiment on the 20th of March, 1762. 

When the Revolutionary War commenced he had acquired a thorough 
militar} education, bearing the mark in his cheek of a musket ball which had 
struck him at Ticonderoga, and from the effects ol which he afterwards died, 
On the 30th of June. 1775, he succeeded Colonel Myndert Roseboom in com- 
mand of the 2d New York Regiment, Under the Act of Congress, 24th of 
March, 1776, the five regiments furnished by New York were organized for the 
war, and he was appointed Colonel ol the 5th New York, but by the subsequent 
Act ol Congress, on the 16th of September following, he was arranged under 
the Continental Establishment of the State's Quota, on the 21st of November, 
[776, the Colonel of the 1st New York Regiment, which position he retained 
during the rest ol th< contest or until the regiment was mustered out of the 
set \ ice. 

The following litter, dated from Saratoga, 29th of October, 1776, is copied 
from the state Papers : 

" Genti.kmen, I am honored with your favot ol yesterday - ! date as I found that the 

Militia moved with the greatest reluctance from Fort Edward, I resolved to let Colonel Dayton — 

of the Jersey line prosecute his march to Ticonderaga and let about 400 of the Militia from 

Fort Edward march to Tryon Count} and gavi orders accordinglj earlj yesterda) morning. 

1 Dayton has aln pa ed this and I momentarily expect the Militia hen 

" (\ltho 1 am quite in sentiment with you, on I' Huston's information, yet it is very possible 
that Get . 1 arlton ma) detach, or has alreadj detached a part of his 1 orce (especially his 
Indians, Tories .\ Canadians, who would be ol verj little si rvice in an attack on our 1 ines) to the 
Mohawk River. I shall therefore order the Militia whom I expect from Fori Edward, to pro- 
ceed without delay to rryon County, and to put then undei the command of General 
Herkimer 01 Van Schaick, whom I have ordered into that Quarter, and referred to you 
foi instructions. 

" I do not apprehend that an attack will be made by the way "I Fort Stanwix, and as the 
Garrison al thai place is > 1 -■ I would nol advise the sending anymore men 

there. I do not think it would be proper to strip the ( it) altogethei ol froops and you will 



I ill SO< II IV OF I III' CINCINNATI. 329 

therefore please to cause some of the Militia to remain and desire Colonel Van Schaick to taki 
the two Companies of his Regimenl up wiili him. 

" I .mi Gentlemen, Respectfully, Your Most Obdt Humb Servanl 
"Committeeol Convention. I'll SCHUYLER." 

In February, 177'), leaving his command at Fort Schuyler, he joined 

Brigadier-General James Clinton, who was marching to expel the ei 

invasion of the Mohawk, and on the :oth of the following April, with Colvnel 

Peter Gansevoort and five hundred men, surprised and destroyed the Onondaga 

Settlements, returning to his command on the 24th, For this service he 

received the thanks of Congress on the 8th of June, 1779. and the following 

notice from General Washington in General Orders, dated May 8th, 1779 : 

" The good conduct, secrecy, spirit and despatch, with which the enterprize was executed, 
does the highest honoi to C lotiel Van Schaick and the officers and men undei his 1 ommand, and 
merits thi' thanks of the Comnianili i ■-in-Chief. " 

On the 14th of November, 1770, he married Maria Ten Broeck, by whom 
he had five suns and one daughter. Mis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



GARRET VAN WAGENEN* 

Surgeon 8M Pennsylvania Regiment. 

Horn at Kingston, N. Y.. on the 15th of March, 1756. Died on the 12th of 
April, 1792, at Newark, N. J. 

1 [<■ was the eldest son of Jacob Van Wagenen and his wife, Nell je Visscher, 
and having been educated practically as a physician, enlisted in the cause oi 
the Colony, and was appointed Surgeon of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, 
with which he continued until honorably discharged the service at the close of 
the war. 

lie married Miss Todd, a Virginia lady, who died soon afterwards without 
issue. Ids name appears on the Half-Fay Roll. 

JOHN ISAAC I'll ME Colonel U. S. A), his nephew (the eldest son of 
Ins only sister, Arin.it 1 1 , the wife ol Isaac Plume), was admitted in iN-vpt He 
served during tin- Wai ol 1812 in Colon,/ Schuyler's Regiment at Niagara and 
along the frontier, until peace was declared on tin- 14th of February, 1815. 
Residing in New Jersey, he met with the Society there on the 4th of Jul). 

and was in 1830 elected its Secretary, At Ins decease, in March, 1854, the 



Set ante, page 151 I hi ieutenant Cam 1 II Van Wagener, who signed the remonstrance with ( 'afitain 
Aaron Aorson and othei , was hi 1 >usin. 

♦ Sr, |i , 



33° THE SOCIETY of THE CINCINNATI. 

New York State Society issued a general order to wear the usual badge of 
mourning for him, for thirty days. 

JOHN VISSCHER PLUME, only son of the last, was admitted by the 
New York Society in 1857. He died without issue on the 26th of April, 1884, 
at San Francisco. 



TUNIS VAN WAGENEN 

Lieutenant 2d New York Regiment. 

Appointed on the 21st of November, 1776, Ensign in the 2d New York 
Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt's — and promoted to be a Lieutenant on the 
10th of October following. In August, 177S, he was appointed Brigade 
Quartermaster, and served as such until deranged, January 1st, 1781, by Act 
of Congress. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roil. 



HENRY VAN WOERT 

Lieutenant and Quartermaster 1st New York Regiment. 

Born on the 29th of March, 1747. Died on the 5U1 of February, 1813. 

He entered the service as Quartermaster of the 2d Regiment, New York 
Continental Infantry — Colonel Van Schaick's — in the 30th of June, 1775. 
Appointed, upon the Continental Establishment of New York's Quota, under 
Co/one/ Win Schaick, Ensign of the 1st New York Regiment on the 21st of 
November, 1776, and Quartermaster in January, 1779. Promoted to be a 
Lieutenant on the 29th of September. 1780, and served until mustered out with 
his regiment. 

General Schuyler, on a list in 1776, noted him, when he was Quartermaster, 
"as a good officer." He appears on another list in the State Records as 
" Adjutant and as having resigned that position in or before 1777." 

His tombstone, in the Reformed Protestant Dutch burial ground at Albany, 

bears the following inscription : 

" In Memory of Henry Van Woert, an old Revolutionary Officer, who died on the 5th of 
February. 1813. Aged 65 years and 10 months." 

He married Catharina Eights, by whom he had three sons and four 
daughters. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 




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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 33I 

RICHARD VARICK 

Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Mustermaster-General. 

Born on the 25th of March, 1753. Died on the 30th of July, 1831. 

At the time of his birth his parents were living at Hackensack, N. J. When 
the Revolution broke out, he having been practising his profession, the law, in 
New York City, joined the army in 1775, and was appointed a Captain in the 
i st New York Continental Infantry, under Colonel McDougall. 

( )n the 10th of April, 1777, being at that time the Military Secretary of 
General Schuyler, Congress conferred upon him the position of Deputy Muster- 
master-General of the Northern Department, with the rank of Lieutenant- 
Colonel, and he was on duty organizing and keeping up the quotas as far as 
possible to their full standard, and preparing the requirements necessary 
to impede the advance of General John Burgoyne, who had already made 
such a formidable entrance to the State by way of lake Champlain. He was 
present at his final total defeat and surrender at General Schuyler's head- 
quarters at the confluence of the Fish-Creek and the Hudson, near where the 
Aqueduct of the Champlain Canal now stands. In the following year the office 
he held having been abolished, he acted as Inspector-General at West Point on 
the stall of General Arnold, until after the discovery of his meditated treason, 
when Washington took him into his " military family " .is Recording Secretary 
of his official and private correspondence, which position he held during the 
war. 

The following letters from Washington to him. express his Excellent y's 

sentiments in regard to his ability and method : 

" ROCIO Mill, (let. 2d, 1.78 j. 

" Dear Sir: Enclosed are my private Letters fur registering — 

" As fast as they arc entered, return them to me by the weekly mail ; lor we have occasion 
for frequent references — do the same thin" with the Public Letters 

" As the letters which are handed to yon now, contain sentiments upon undecided points, it 
is, more than ever, necessary that there should be the strictest guard over them, and the most 

perfect silence with respect to their contents. Mr. Taylers prudence wiil, I persuade mysell 

induce him to pay particular attention to both, 

" I am Dr. Sir Yr most obed Servt t ;i 1 WASHINGTON.' 

" Mount Vernon, January 9th, [784. 

" Dear Sir — From the moment 1 left the City of New York until my arrival al this place, I 
have been so much occupied by ,1 variet) of concerns, that I could not find a moments leisure to 
acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the jili and ;th ultimo. 

"The public and oihet Papers which were committed to your charge, and the Books in 

wliii h they have been recorded under your inspection, having CO fi to hand, I lake this tirst 

opportunity ol signifying, my entire approbation ol the manner in which you have executed th< 
important duties of rei cretary ; and the satisfaction I feel in having my Papers so 

properly arranged. & so correctly recorded — and beg you will ao ept my thanks [or the care and 



332 I HE mi, ir ry OF llll CINCINNA 11. 

attention which you have given to tins business — 1 am fully convinced that neither the present 
age noi posterit) will consider tin- time an. I labour which has been employed in accomplishing it, 

unprofitably spent. 

" 1 pray you will be persuaded, that 1 shall lake a pleasure in asserting on every occasion the 
sense I entertain of the fidelity, skill ami indefatigabh industrj manifested bv you in the perform- 
ano .-I youi public duties, and ol the sincere regard .V esteem with which 

•• 1 am l>r Sir Vr most obed & afft Servt GO WASHINGTON 

In the Fall of 1780 lie wrote General Schuyler that a Court of Inquiry was 
about in convene respecting his having been conversant with Arnold's plot to 
surrender West Point to the British, desiring him to attend, whereupon he sent 
the following letter to the Court, addressed to Colonel Van Schaick, its presid- 
ing officer : 

" S \i; \i oga, 1 Ictobei 1 5th, 17S0. 

" Sir : Vesterday 1 received a letter from Col n I Varick, informing me that he ha. I intreated 
an Inquiry into his conduct, ami that it would probably soon take place, ami requesting me to 
attend t.. give m> testimony. As he has long resided with me, nothing but a very ill state of 
health prevents mj attending. I consider it however a dut) incumbent on me to inform yon Sir, 
and thro, you the Court, that in the year 1775. Richard Varicli Esq, was appointed a Captain in 
one ol the New York Battallions ; that when the command ol the Northern Department was 
conferred on me. I appointed him my Secretary ; that he served in that office until the Autumn 
o! 1770. when lie was appointed Deputy Muster Master General and had the rank of Lieutenant 
Colonel conferred on him. in which office he remained until the Muster Master Department was 
abolished I'hat I reflect with satisfaction on the propriety of that Gentlemans conduct in every 
point of view , that I had such entire confidence in his attachment to the Glorious Cause we are 
ed in. that 1 concealed nothing from him, and never once had reason to repent that I 

ed so much trust in him ; that I am s,, far from believing him capable of betraying his 
Country, that if even testimony on oath was given against him. il would gain little credit with 
me, unless the persons giving it were of lair and unblemished characters, Upon the whole as 1 
have always found him to be a man of strict Honor, probity & virtue, so I do still believe him 
to be,— 1 am Sir. Your most obedient Humble Servant, I'll: SCHUYLER. 

" President of the Court for Enquiring into the Conduct of / Co/ \ irick 

The Court unanimously reported their opinion — 

"That / Varick's conduct, with respect to the base peculations and treas- 

onable practices of the late G Arnold, i^ nol only unimpeachable but we, think him e 

through every pari ol his conduct to a degree ol merit, that does him great honor as an officer 
and particularly, distinguishes him as a sincere friend ol his Country." 

Which was approved as follows : 

1 It \li Ql Ali I 1 RS, C IMF I' iTOW V 

1 in rsd w Novembci [6th, [780 
I he ( ommander in chief, is pleased to accept and approve the following report of a Court 
of Enquiry, held al West Point, the 2d instant, to examine into the conduct of Lieutenant 
Varick, in liis connexion with the late Major General Arnold, during his command at 
West Point and relative to his desertion to the Enemy. 

" ALEXAND] R SCAMME1 1 / ' 

"Colo cl\ in Schaick, Pr< 1 nets Cobb and Dearborn Majoi Reid and 

Capta Co em 



THE SOCIl IV OF III! CIN( l\ N All. 333 

Arnold's letter, dated from the " Vulture," acquits linn of all knowledge of 
his intentions. 

The following Utter to him from General Schuyler has never been pub- 
lished, and shows the intimacy existing between them : 

" Sara \ Maj )d 1 

" Dr C mi I thank you (or your favor by Mr Fonda & for the intelligence you have 

given me— I had a hint some time ago, that Gates would take the command in the highlands as 
soon as all was prepared he lias the luck of reaping harvests sown bj others. 

" I hope to b down on Wednesday My Compliments to Mr & Mrs Rensselaer, Adieu — 

" I am Sir Sincerely Yours &l ,\ 

" ( ol \ vrick I'll S< HUY1 I R " 

He accepted the office of Recorder of the City of New York in 1783, and 
in the next year was elected a member of the State Legislature, when, with 
Samuel Jones, he was appointed to revise the Statutes of the State, issued in 
17S9. He presided as Speaker of the Assembly in 17X7 and 17S.S Appointed 
Attorney-General in May, 1789, and the following September elected Mayor of 
New York, which office he retained until Edward Livingston succeeded him in 
1801. lie was President of the New York Society of the Cincinnati from [806 
until his decease, which occurred at his residence in Jersey City, upon which 
occasion the Society issued the general order to attend his funeral from the 
Dutch Church, corner of Cedar and Nassau Streets, wearing the usual badge 
of mourning for thirty days, at the same time expressing the following senti- 
ments : 

" That his courtesy ami kimhuss to the membi rs, his liberality to such ol the di scendants of 
deceased members as needed ii, and his attachment to this Institution, can never be forgotten 

He man led Maria, daughter of Isaac Roosevelt, but died without issue 
surviving him. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

JOHN VREDENB1 RGH VARICK, his nephew (a twin), son of his 
eldest brother, Abraham Yarick and Trucntia Vredenburgh, was admitted to 
the sui ' ession in [832, He died on the 18th ol May, 1835, at his resident e in 
Jersey City. 

RICHARD ABRAHAM VARICK, eldesl son of the last, was admitted in 

[855. I If died 111 [872. 

JOHN BARNES VARICK, eldest son of the last, was admitted in 1X72. 



* The other (win. Abraham Varick, married Anna Floyd (widow <>i Georgi W. Clinton, the <>nl\ 

Govern ■ I 1 I tinton daughter of General William Floyd, o\ l on$ I iland, and <i:< d, leaving two daughters, 

■ i fulia 



; ; I ['HE SOCIETY OB ["HE CINCINNATI. 

PETER VOSBUROUGH 

i tptain 4/// .V,., York Regiment. 

He was a resident of Ulster County, N. Y., and soon after the Revolution 
broke out was appointed, in 1776, a Lieutenant in 1 \ an Schaick's ist New 

York Regiment. On the 1st of February, 1777, he was transferred to the 4th 
\ 1 u York Regiment Colonel Henry B. Livingston's with the same rank. 
Appointed Q ■ as, on the 7th of September, 1778. Promoted to be 

1 tptain in his regiment on the 6th of |anuary, 1779, and served as such until 
mustered out of the service .it the clos< of the war. His name appears on the 

Hall Pa\ Roll 



JOHN WALDRON 

fain- Lieutenant New York I 

Horn in New York City on the 29th of February, 1756. Died unmarried. 

He was the eldest son of William Waldron and Helligant Minthorne (the 
half-sister of Captain Jacob and Lieutenant John Reed), and a descendant of 
Resolved Waldron, of Amsterdam, Holland, whose son, Joseph, emigrated to 
America in 1 75-'. 

With Lieutenant-C Marinus Willett and others'' he removed the Ring's 

Arms from the old New York City Hall, in Broad St net. 

\t the beginning of the war he enlisted asa private in Captain Abraham Van 
Dy< k's Company of Grenadiers, ist New York Regiment of Volunteer Infantry 
or Minute Men. undei 1 fohn Lasher, on the 14th of September. 1775. 

In a report to the Committee ol Arrangement, made to them by the officers 
of his regiment and dated 29th of January, 1 7 7 * >. he was mentioned 

" As one "I the regiment willing to enter into the service ol his , ountrj and who could be 
depended on." 

His regiment was retained in the service until after the battles « » t I 

Island and White Plains, when, in November, 1776, it was disbanded. 

Having been recommended by Colonel Lasher for a commission in the 
Regular Army, he was, on the 1st of January, 1 7 7 7, appointed Second Lieu- 
tenant of the 2i\ Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — 
and on tin- i;th fi September, 177 s . promoted to be First Lieutenant of 



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III! SOCIETY OF I III CINCINNATI. 335 

Oershom Mott's and afterward of Captain John Doughty's Company. On the 
23d of March, 1781, he was elected its Captain- Lieutenant. On the following 
23d of June he was transferred to Captain Andrew Moodie's Company, in which 
he served until he was, at Ins own request, honorably discharged on the 8th of 

April, 1782, after faithfully serving his country for six years. 



BENJAMIN WALKER 

Captain 21/ New York Regiment, Aide-de-Camp. 

Born in England in 1753. Died on the 13th of January, 1818, at Utica, 
N. Y. 

He joined the army as a Lieutenant on the 24th of February, 1776, in the 
1st Regiment of Continental Infantry — Colonel McDougall's — and was pro- 
moted, on the Establishment of the New York Quota on the following 21st of 
November, to be Captain in Colonel Henry I!. Livingston's 4th New York 
Regiment, and on the consolidation was transferred to the 2d New York 
Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt's— as Captain of the First Company. 

The opportunity for the opening of his future career is shown in the follow- 
ing extract from a letter from Colonel Alexander Scammell to General Sullivan, 
dated Valley Forge, April 8th, 1778, when Baron Steuben had assumed the 
duty of General-Inspector, and was instructing recruits in tactics : 

" At the first parade, the troops neither understanding the command, nor how to follow in ,1 
movement, to which they had not been accustomed, even with ''i :r instructor at their head w< n 
^cttinj; fast into confusion At this moment Captain Benjamin Walker, then "I tin- 2d New 
York Regiment, advanced from his platoon, offered his assistance to translate the order to the 
troops. ' If,' saiii the Baron, ' I had seen an anycl from [leave:., 1 should not have been ro. .n 
rejoiced.' " 

His knowledge of language was the cause of his being attached to the 
Baron's Staff as an Aide-de Camp in September, 1778, and afterwards as his 
companion and heir in his home in the Wilderness, " the Palace of Logs " 

He was Steuben's intelligent medium at Headquarters, with Congress, in 
the Department and in personal complications. His correspondence shows 
that, like his young associates in the service, he owed lus advancement to his 
cultivated mind. 

Captain Peter S. Duponceau, who served with him on the Baron'i Stall, has 
described him — 

"Not wiih .1 brilliant, but a soli.] education he was master of the French language, and 

gifted by nature with a clear head and sound judgment. Me was brave, intelligent, honest and 



j,; f ' II' 1 SOI 11 IV OF THE CINCINNATI. 

true, [enjoyed his friendship to the time of his death. He was beloved and respected by all 
who knew him." 

On the 25th of February, 1782, he was transferred to Washington's Staff as 
one of his Aides. 

Copy of a letter, endorsed — 

-.' B Walker Gei Washington and his lady are to visit me at Pompton." 

"To B Get '{ linton 01 officei commanding the New-York Brigade 

" Morristown, March 27th S2. 
"Sir, The Commander-in-Chief proposes leaving iliis place- tomorrow morning so as to 
arrive in the vicinity of your C intonment in the evening, and the next morning early will review 
the 1 mops, and proceed the same day as far as Ringwood, as it is rather dangerous remaining 
all night in the (."love, you will pleas, to semi a Captain's Guard from your Brigade, to remain 
at Ringwood the night the General stays there. You will also please to order your Quarter 
Master, to provide sufficient quarters in your vicinity for the General & his family, which consists 
ot Mi-, Washington ami lour Gentlemen, with nineteen horses, inclusive' of the escort of an 
officer, Sergl and twelv* Dragoons. 

" I am Sir. yr very humble servant — 

" BEN. WALKER, Aid, dt Camp" 

\tter the peace he was chosen the Private Secretary ot Gove not George 
Clinton, ami as a subsequent token of Ins appreciation, Washington appointed 
him Naval Officer of the Port of New York. In 1797 he was given the entire 
charge of the Pultney Estate by the Earl of Bute, at Utica, N. Y . ami subse- 
quently was sent from there to Congress m 1801. His name appears on the 
llalf-Tav Roll. 



J EDEDI AH WATERMAN 

Ensign 8/// Massachusetts Regiment. 

Died on the 25th of September, 1828. 

He was admitted by the New York State Society in 1800. 

When the Revolutionary War commenced he entered the service as an 
Ensign in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment — Colonel Michael Jackson's — and 
served with it during the war ami until honorably discharged the service, with 
his regiment. 

At his (hath the So< iety issued the following general order : 

\i w Yokk, September 25th, [S28 
" The President informs the members that Jedediah Waterman. Esq . an original member of 
the Societj died this morning, after a long and painful illness \h Waterman was an I 
in the Sth Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Amu. wis ,, brave ami intelligent officer, 
and served until the cl< si ol the Revolutionary War. 



nil'. iOCIETY OF 1111 CINCINNATI. 337 

" The members "f the Society arc requested to attend the funeral of the deceased from his 
Lit. irM.i, n , , , v, I,,,, i lurry Street, on I' t idaj (to-morrow) afternoon, at half-past t ■ . 1 1 t o'clock, 
and to wear the usual badge ol mourning for a deceased member. Bj ordei ol 

" Charles Graham, Si (a \ < nel RICHARD VARICK, President." 

He married Elizabeth Plummer, by whom he had one son, George, who 
died without issue, and one daughter, Eliza, who became the wife of the 
Reverend Thomas De Witt anil the mother of Mary E. (Mrs. Theodore Cuyler, 
D.D.), and Maria (Mrs. Morris K. Jesup). lie was for many years a promi- 
nent member of the Standing Committee. His name appears on the Half-Pay 
Roll. 

THOMAS DE WITT CUYLER, his eldest grandson, was admitted in 1878. 



JAMES WATSON 

Captain Connecticut Continental Line, 

Under a resolution, passed by the Connecticut branch of the Cincinnati 
Society on the 7th of July, 17K4, admitting officers residing in the State who 
had served with the Continental troops raised for the defence of any of the 
United Stairs, he was on that day, with eighteen others, admitted to member- 
ship. 

By a resolution passed at the meeting held at Hartford, on the 4th ol July, 

1 7X7, it was vi ited — 

"That the monies which are remaining in tin- hands of Captain Watson, in New Vork, 
arising from the sales of the interest on our funds, shall be applied towards the debts due, as 
aforesaid mentioned, so far as they may be necessary 

At a meeting of the New York State Society, held at the "Coffee House,' 
on the 15th of July, 1786, a letter was read from him, claiming the right to lie 
a member of the Society, which was referred to the Committee' on Admissions, 
who, at the next meeting of the Society, on the 12th of August, reported in his 
favor, and he appears to have been present and subscribed Ins name to the 
New York Roll, but without rank. 

He was elected Vice-President of the New York State So( iety on the 4th 
of July, 1793. 

JAMES TALCOTT WATSON, his son, was admitted, in his succession 
in 1806. 



33# THE S0CI1 IV OF I'HK CINCINNATI. 

SAMUEL BLACHLEY WEBB 

( 'olonel yl Connecuticut Regiment. 

Born at Wethersfield, Conn., in 175,5. Died at Claverack, N. Y., on the 
3d of December, 1S07. 

He was an original member of the Connecticut Society, but, in 1785, 
removed to New York and met with the Society there* 

His ancestor, Richard Webb, of England, emigrated to America, and 
became a freeholder of Boston in 1632. Subsequently settled on a grant of 
land in Connecticut, near Hartford, and from there removed to Stamford, 
where he died in 1O76. His lathe:, Joseph Webb, founded the homestead 
called "Hospitality Hall," at Wethersfield, Conn Upon the intelligence of 
the Battle of Lexington reaching him, he volunteered as a private in Captain 
Chester's 1 ight [nfantry Company, and was soon after appointed a Lieutenant, 
and marched with it to Hunker Hill, where he was wounded in the aim, and 
where he held the angle in "the stone fence," fur which he was thanked m 
General Orders afterwards. 

In a letter, dateil Camp at Cambridge, July nth, 1775, addressed to the 
Hon. Silas Deane. he says : 

' Putnam is a m. m highly esteemed In us lie lias done me tin- honor to appoint 

me his first Aide-tle-Camp, since which I have had the oiler of being .1 Btigade Major from 
(/•;</ G ■') Gates They arc both honorable ami agreeable posts. I shall for the 
present however remain with 1 I'utnam This pi st will cms,, me to continue with the best 

company in camp, by which 1 hope to improve. Our Commandcr-in Chief, together with othe-r . 
gentlemen from the southward, are highly esteemed in ever} class. They will be a means ol 
disciplining the Army, which was much wanted. Vour friend, Mr Mifflin, 1- a gentleman, my 
station will call me to he much with him." 

He was entrusted to conduct the prisoners to Hartford, and when Putnam 
assumed command at New York, with his headquarters in the old Schuyler 
house, Nil 1 Broadway, he accompanied him as his Aide, submitting a plan to 
cut off the furnishing of supplies to the British ships, by a water patrol of 
whale boats between Am buy and Sandy Honk, and which was approved of by 
the- Committee of Safety. 

On the 21st of lime, 1 7 7 (>, Washington appointed him, 111 Genera/ Orders, 
his Aidc-de-Camp, with rank of Major. 

At the Battle of White Plains he was wounded, and had his horse shi t 
under him while carrying orders. 

Desiring more active service, he assisted, in 1 7 7 S, recruiting, and after- 
wards obtained the command of a regiment, the 9th, subsequently known as 

■ Sei mte. pa 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 339 

the 3d Connecticut, and joined the brigade of Brigadier- General Samuel 
Holden Parsons,* then stationed on the Hudson. 

In December, 1779, a detachment from Webb's and Colonel Roger Enos' 
regiments crossed over Long Island Sound, in a sloop and two schooners, to 
capture the enemy's stores at Setauket and some lumber vessels .it Southhold, 
when unfortunately they met the British frigate " Faulkland " on her way to 
Newport, R. I. The two schooners ran in on the Connecticut shore with 
most of the troops, who escaped to New London, and from there they were 
ordered to Peekskill, where they remained with the army in the Highlands 
until consolidated with the Connecticut Line, in January, 1781. The sloop, 
containing ten officers, titty men and both the Colonels, grounded on "Old 
Man's Shoal," and was captured, when they were all carried to Newport, 
where, after a short confinement, Colonel Webb was paroled to Wethersfield 
and so to Flatbush, until exchanged in January, 1782, when he succeeded 
Steuben to the command of the Light Infantry. 

He was engaged in the Battle of Brandywine and wounded at Trenton. 

After the war he resided in Pearl Street, New York, having married, first, 
Eliza Bancker, who died without issue, and then Catherine Hogeboom, of 
Claverack, X. V., by whom he had four sons and five daughters. His name- 
appears on the Half- Pay Roll. 

HENRY LIVINGSTON WEBB.f his eldest son, was admitted in 1851 by 
the New York Society. He married, in 1816, Mary Ann Edwards, by whom he 
had nine children, and died at New Orleans on the 5th of December, 1876. 

CHARLES FREDERICK WEISSENFELS 

Lieutenant zd New York Regiment. 

He entered the service at the commencement of the War for Independence, 
and appears to have served in the Canada Campaign with his relative, Colonel 
Frederick {Baron) Von Weissenfels. Under the order of Brigadier-General 
Wooster, dated April 15th, 1776, before Quebec, consolidating those of the 
four New York Regiments, who had not returned home, into one regiment 
under Colonel John Nicholson, he was appointed an Ensign of the First 
Company. 

* Flu was drowned in (hi I >hio River, near Pittsburgh, an the 17th of November, 1789. 

t Under the resolution of 1857 the following descendants °I Colonel Webb were admitted as Life Members: 

Stephen Hogeboom Webb, Walter Wimple Webb and General James Watson Wi bb also, Robert Stewart 

Webb, Watson Webb, General Alexander Stewart Webb, G ' Webb Morell and James V 

I grandsons). 



340 I in SOCIETY OF I III CINCINNATI 

When the 3d New York Regiment was organized, under the Act of Con- 
gress, on the 24th of March, 1776, the field officers, in a report made by them, 
st.ur : "We shall be happ) i" have him removed to this regiment.'' 

(in the 21st of November, 1776, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in 
the ''I New York Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt's — and on the ist of 
September, 1777, promoted to Lieutenant in the same, until October, 1779, 
when he was appointed Quartermaster, until mustered out at the end of the 
war. llis name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



FREDERICK WEISSENFELS 

Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding yi IVew York Regiment. 

Frederick [Ba \ Von Weissenfels was born al Ebling, Prussia, in 1728. 
Died ai New Orleans on the 14th of May, 1806. 

Although trained as a < 'adet under Frederick the Great, he entered the 
British servici as ,1 Lieutenant, am 1 came to America in 175''. 

lie was at the taking oi Havana, ami served under General Abercrombie at 
the siege of Ticonderoga, in 1758, and on the Plains of Abraham, al Quebec, 
when (■ Wolfe fell at the moment of victory. 

He was. in 1759, a store-keeper at Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., running 
a\-<> a ferry to Oyster Bay, L. 1. 1 Iraki' places him as residing in Dutchess 
l lounty in 1 763. 

lie appears in the "Journal of the l'ro\ incial O ingress ol New York," with 
Marinus Willett ami Gershom Mott, offering their. services, in a letter dated 

] line 6th, 1775. as follows ; 

"Gentlemen As we have been over heartily attached 10 the cause ol oui ( lounti v. so we 
are now read) to engage in thi of her rights; and .is we understand troops are soon to 

be raised in tins Pro\ ince, we think ii a duty incumbent on us to offer oui 

On the -\sth of June, 1775. they appointed him a Captain, antl he was com- 
missioned on the 28th in the 1st New York Continental Infantry — ( 
Mel lougall's serving with it in the Canada Campaign, ami for a time as ,s 
Captain of Colonel Van Schaick's, until appointed at Quebec, on the 15th of 
April, 177(1, the Lieutenant-Colon <nel Nicholson's Regiment. This was 

a provisional organization formed by General Wooster from the remnant of the 
four N e\v York regiments. 

In November. 177(1. he was entrusted with _/.';,coo bounty money for 
disbursement. 



! Ml SOCIETY Ol I III CINCINNATI. 34 I 

A letter in the "American Archives" states — 

"That Colonel Weissenfels was in 1775, in command al New York, and went to Canada to 
repel Go; . 1 noi I arleton, who was coming lo New York to punish the rebels. He was at Qui bee 
with General Montgomery, and ranked as Brigadi \fa 

In the ensuing campaign, while stationed .it Westchester, on the lints, 
acting as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3d New York Regiment, as reorganized in 
March, 1776, under Colonel Rudolph Ritzema — who, after frequent absence, 
during which it was claimed he was in New York, deserted to the enemy— he 
was placed in command of that regiment by General Washington, on the 8th ol 
March, 1776, and led the regiment in the battle at White Plains, and subse- 
quently across the Hudson, through New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

On the 21 st ol November, 1776, upon the establishment of the New York 
quotas, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2d New York Regiment— 
Colonel Van Cortlandt's— and wenl into Winter quarters at New Windsor, taking 
part the nexl Summer in the Burgoyne Campaign. 

On the 13th of January, 1777,11c was transferred to the |th New York 
Regiment. Colonel Henry B. Livingston having resigned, he was, on tin :6th 
of April, 1779, appointed its Colonel Commandant. 

When Congress subscipient K pas-eil the Act reducing the quotas of New 
York from five to two regiments, his regiment was consolidated with the 2d 
New York — Colonel Van Cortlandt's— and he became deranged, iiniil Governor 
George Clinton tendered the two adiliiioii.il regiments from the Stale, which 
Congress accepted; and Lieutenant-Colonel Weissenfels and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Marinus Willed were, on the 28th of April, [781, appointed to their command, 
and until the termination of the war, with rank dating from September iSth, 
1 7 So. 

Colonel Van Cortlandt, in 1831, wrote as follows: 

" My old and much esteemed friend, Colonel Frederick Weissenfels, together with myself, 
entered the Army in the Commencement of the War, and served to the end thereof, and he 

hopes that the Government still retains some remembrance of the < >kl Soldier's ardent Servio 
* * * A good Soldier, and faithful in the interest of the United States: lie was highly 
esteemed by General Washington and all his brothel Officers ill which, lo me. was well 
known. He retained his rank in the Army as long as he lived, and after the Peace, he was in 
the Service of the state of New York on several Commands." 

General William Colfax, another veteran, writing from l'omplon, N. J., on 

March 151I1, 1838, says : 

" It gives me pleasure, great pleasure, t<> rendei my tribute lo the Services of mj brothei 
..1 inn. who was engaged in the great Struggle foi Vmerican Liberty ami Independence. 1 well 
remember Colonel Weissenfels, when Commanding the I ife Guard "i C n '/Washington, who 
gave me the hospitalities of his table— in that Situation I became acquainted with tin < " 
Hi. Army very generally. It was the practice of the Generat, in Wintei Quarters, to give 
written invitations, 10 a Certain number ol cers of differenl radi to dine with him, until all 



342 I Ml SOI II IV (IF THE CINCINNATI. 

had had their turn. Frequently, very frequently, Colonel Weissenfels dined with the Commander- 
in Chief, General Washington esteemed Colonel Weissenfels, a brave, intelligent, efficient 
( Ifficer, punctual in duty, and always at his post." 

Although really requiring it, in his old age he could not be induced to 
claim the pension or half-pay for life awarded by the Act of Congress. The 
State of New York, however, recognized his services on the 9th of July, 1790, 
by a grant to him of three thousand acres of land.* 

In 1777 he married Elizabeth Bogart, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt acting 
as groomsman. His only son, Frederick, died at Alexandria, Va., of yellow 
fever, in 1798. His two daughters, Eliza (Mrs. Rigal) and Harriet (Mrs. John 
Martin Baker), survived him. 



JACOB HENRY WENDELL 

Lieutenant and Adjutant 1st New York Regiment. 

Born on the 2 1 st of October, 1754. Died on the 23d of March, 1S26. 

He was a descendant of Evert Jansen Wendell, of Albany. N. Y., and son 
of Harmanus Wendell and Catharine Van Vechten. 

Appointed, on the 21st of November, 1776. Ensign of Van Ness's Company 
of the 1st New York Regiment — Colonel Van Schaick's. Promoted to be Lieu- 
tenant in January, 1779, and Adjutant of the same on the 29th of September, 
1780. He served until honorably discharged with his regiment at the close of 
the war. 

In 17S5 he married Gertrude, the daughter of Peter Lansing, of Albany, 
by whom he had one son (Dr. Peter Wendell) and two daughters, who died 
unmarried. He represented Albany County in the New York State Legisla- 
ture for three sessions — 1 796— '7— '8 — of the House of Assembly. His name 
appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

HARMAN WENDELL, M.D., his grandson, eldest son of Dr. Peter 
Wendell, was admitted in 1N51. He died on the 22d of February, t88i, 
unmarried. 

BENJAMIN RUSH WENDELL, the next eldest brother of the last, was 
admitted in 1881. He died on the 24th of October, 1884, at his residence in 
Cazenovia, N. Y., having married Margaret Ten Eyck Ilurr. 

BURR WENDELL, eldest surviving son of the last, was admitted in 1S85. 

* Kr«>m 1704 until his decease the society donated him from the fund about seven hundred dollars. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 343 

JOHN HARMANUS WENDELL 

Captain \st New York Regiment. 

Born at Albany, N. Y., in 1744. Died there on the 10th of July, 1832. 

He was the elder brother of Lieutenant Jacob Henry Wendell, and was 
practicing law when the Revolutionary War commenced. On the 30th of June, 
1775, he was appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 2d Battalion, 
under Colonel Myndert Roseboom, and served with it in the Canada Campaign 
when commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaick as the 2d New York, and on 
the 1st of March, 1776, appears to have been promoted Captain of the Seventh 
Company. After the establishment of the New York Quota he was, on the 
21st of November, 1 776, arranged as a Captain of the 1st New York Regi- 
ment — Colonel Van Schaick's — and served as such until he resigned on the 5th 
of April, 1 78 1. 

He was in the Battle of Monmouth and in the Northern Army at the sur- 
render of Burgoyne. 

After the war he was made Brigadier-General of the Militia, under the 
State organization, and elected from Albany County a member of the State 
Legislature from 1796 to 1798, and Surrogate of the same in 1S12. 
At his decease the following was issued : 

" General Order. New York. July 12th, 1S32. 

" The President, with deep regret, announces to the members of the Society the decease of 
their respected friend and companion-in-arms, General John H. Wendell. He died at the City 
of Albany, on Monday last, in the SSth year of his age. 

"At I lie commencement of the Revolutionary contest General A'endell abandoned the practice 
of the law, in which he was then engaged, and was appointed a Captain in the 1st New York 
Regiment, commanded by the late Colonel Van Schaick. II. distinguished himself at the 
celebrated Battle of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, and served in the Northern Army, 
commanded by the late Major-General Gates, until and after the surrender of Burgoyne's 
army. 

"After the peace General Wendell accepted a command in the militia, and continued att.ii hed 
to it until he was promoted to the rank of General. 

" The members of the Society are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty 
days in memory of their departed friend and brother soldier. By order of 

•' Major- General MORGAN LEWIS, President. 

" CHAR) es i is \u \m, Set n tat 1 . 

He married Cathalina Van Benthuysen, of Albany, by whom he had one 
son, Harm. mus, who died unmarried, and one daughter, Rachel, who married 
Herman Knickerbacker. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

GRIFFITH PRITCHARD GRIFFITH, his great-grandson, eldestsonof 
John M.Griffith and Catalina Knickerbacker, was admitted, in 1880, in the 
succession. 



344 THE SOCIETY <H I HI CINCINNATI. 

MICHAEL WETZELL 

Lieuteuant New York Artillery. 

He was. upon the recommendation of Captain Sebastian Bauman, appointed, 
on the 29th of June, 1781, Lieutenant of Fleming's Company, in the 2d Regi- 
ment, Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — and on the 12th of 
June, 1783, Regimental Quartermaster. Honorably mustered out of the service, 
with a portion of his regiment, on the 1st of January, 1784. His name appears 
on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ANDREW WHITE 

Lieutenant 2d New York Regiment. 

Died in March, 1805. 

He appears to have been an Associator for liberty, in Ulster County, on the 
6th of July, 1775. 

Appointed, on the 21st of November, 1776, Ensign of the Fourth Company 
of the 2d New York Regiment — Colour/ Van Cortlandt's — and subsequently 
promoted to be Lieutenant. He resigned on the 5th of April, 1780. 

In a letter from Colonel Gansevoort to Governor George Clinton, dated Camp 
Orange Town, 16th of August, 1780, he is mentioned as " having resigned from 
the service." 

In 1796 he represented Washington County in the New York State 
Legislature. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ANTHONY WALTON WHITE 

Colonel 1st Regiment Light Dragoons. 

Compiled from Anna M W. Woodhull's memoir. 

Horn near New Brunswick, N. )., on the 7th of July, 1750. Died on the 
10th of February, 1803. 

He was a descendant oi Captain John White, of England, who, in 1587, was 
sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia, as the Governor of that colony. He was 
the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony White, of New Brunswick, and Eliza- 
beth, the daughter of Lewis Morris, then Governor of New Jersey. His great- 
grandfather, Captain Leonard White, of the Royal Navy, was the eldest son of 



I 1 1 1 SOCIETY II CINCINNATI. 345 

Lieutenant < 'olonel Anthony White, who served under William ol i (range in the 
Battle of Bqyne, became a member of the King's Council, and Chiei Justice oi 
the Bermudas, whose father, Vnthony White, was a zealous officei in th< civil 
wars during the reign of Charles I., and who, on his way to Virginia, landing 

at the Bermudas, became a resident there, and subsequently became conn I 

with its government. His grandfather, Anthony White, came to New Vork in 
1715, where, in the following year, he married Joanna, one of those six o le 
brated and beautiful daughters of Doctor Samuel Staats and Ins wife, the East 

Indian Princess, Begum." He received his middle name from his relative 

and godfather William Walton, of New York. 

Appointed an Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Washington, with the rank of 
Major, in October, 1775, and on the following 9th oi February he was com 
missioned by Congress Lieutenant-Colonel oi the 3d I'.attalion of New Jersey 
{first establishment). 

On the 1,5th of February, 1777, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
4th Regimenl of Light Dragoons, and accompanied his command, tinier Wash 
ington's order, to the Southern Department, where it achieved such a national 

reputal ion. 

On the 10th December, 1779, he was appointed Lieutenant- Colonel (Com 
mandant) of the 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons; and on the 16th oi the 
following February was promoted to be its Colonel, and procured on his own 

persona] credit the funds necessary to uniform and equip it. He was ordered 
to the n la 1 oi Major-General Horatio Gates, just before Ins defeat at Camden, 
but did not arrive in time for the battle ol the 16th of August. Early in 1781, 
he was ordered back to Virginia, under the Marquh de La Fayette, and was 
there engaged in various successful skirmishes with his old antagonist, Colonel 
Sir Banastre Tarleton. In the movement of Brig ■ neral Anthony 

Wayne at Savannah, on the 21st of May, 17X2, he contributed much to its 
success by his bold cavalry charge, and alter the evacuation of the city by the 

British, lie brought his command up to Charleston, where his generosity was 
again displayed by becoming security for the required necessaries ol life for 
his officers and men. The proceeds oi that year's tobacco crop was pledged 
to him, but which, proving of no avail, most of his property in the North was 
subsequently obliged to be sacrificed, 

I le married in 1783 the beautiful and attractive heiress Margaret Ellis, of 
South Carolina, whose mother was a sister ot Elias Vanderhorst, the American 
Consul at Bristol, England, in 17.^0, and who was a descendant of (Baron) 
Vanderhorst, of I lolland. 

Mrs. Martha J, Lamb, in her "History ol the City of New York," [881, 
gives an ai I oiiul of the grand proeessi.m three days before the adoption of the 



34& I III SOCIE IV hi I III CINCINNATI, 

Federal Constitution by New York, July 23d, 1788 (the State Convention did 
nol adopt it until July 26th) : 

" Mounted on a fine gray horse, elegantly caparisoned, and led by two colored nun in white 
Oriental dresses and turbans, Anthony Walton White bore tin- Arms of the ' United States' 
in sculpture, preceding the Society ol the 'Cincinnati,' in full military uniform." 

\iter the establishment of peace, he returned with his family from the 
South to New York, and in 171)3 removed to New Brunswick, N. J., his native 
town, where he lived until the close of his life. In 1794, at the request of 
Washington, he took the command of the Cavalry, under Genera/ Lee, against 
the insurgents in the West, and, upon the return of the expedition, took charge 
oi the prisoners on their march to Philadelphia, 

In v.un he petitioned Congress to be reimbursed for the moneys pan! 
by him in the settlements of the accounts in the South incurred for the 
cause 

KOSCIUSZKO made Colonel White's house, "Sans Souci," his home tor 
one Winter during a severe sickness, where he received the kiml attentions of 
Mrs. White and her daughter, which afterward he so gratefully acknowledged 
in his letters to them.* When, in [797, revisiting America, he and Colonel 
White exchanged their gold eagles of the Order of the Cincinnati. 

Colonel White's monument in the burying-ground of Christ's Church, New 
Brunswick, N. J., bears the following inscription: 

■ «. An 1 1 ion \ \\ vi 1 1 1\ White, 

\\ ho departed this life 

on the loth of February, [So 1, 

In ih. [d yeai ol his age, 

Rests beneath this monumental stone. 

lie was an affectionate husband, .1 tender parent, a sincere and 

1 fi iend mil inflexible patriot, 

and a faithful, active ami gallant officer 

in the Army ol the United states 

during the Revolutionary War'' 

In the provisional Army of the United States 111 1798, he was appointed a 
Brigadier-General, and subsequently elected Adjutant-General of the State of 
New Jersey. His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll, 

Willow WALTON WHITE EVANS, lus eldest grandson, was 
admitted in 1842, and died m New \ oik City on the 28th of November, 1886, 
the Society attending his funeral at Woodlawn Cemetery, lor many years he 
had been an active member of the Standing Committee 

li «.is then In- in. ulc the sketi \\ ol himsi II reclining on a sofa; the badge .a thi I im innati was added bj 
Mi-. Evans in 



I II I SOCII I V i II' I HE CIN< IN N VI I. 547 

MARINUS WILLETT 

Lieut tnant Colonel (Commandant} 5/// New York Regiment. 

( ompilcd from his son William M. Willett's " Narrative." 

Bom mi the ;,ist of Jul}', 1740, at Jamacia, L. I. Died on the .'2d of 
August, 1830.* 

He was the youngest son of Edward Willett, a respectable Quaker, residing 
on a farm near [amaica until he moved to the country seat on the East River, 
called Cedar Grove, now in New York City, ami known, until quite lately, as 
Colonel Willett's place, and where his grandfather, Samuel Willett, foimerly the 
Sheriff of Queens County, died, at ninety-three years of age. 

Elbert Willett, who died a few years since, at ninety years of age, at his 
residence in Albany, was Ins onl) surviving brother. 

While George II. was reigning over the Colonies, the contemplated invasion 
of Canada inspirited young Willett to join it, and in [758 he obtained a com- 
mission as Second Lieutenant in the Long Island Company of Colonel Oliver 
DeLancey's Regiment, in General James Abercrombie's Expedition to Ticon- 
deroga and Crown Point. Alter the repulse and death of the first Lord Howe, 
a detachment of three thousand men, including Lieutenant Willett, was sent 
under Colonel John Bradstreet to Oswego, and across Lake Ontario to Canada, 
against Fort Frontenac (now Kingston). The troops, after experiencing many 
obstacles and much suffering, both by land and sea. destroyed the fort on the 
27th of August, and returned with the spoils to the Oneida carrying place 
(Fori Stanwix), with only one-half the command left and lit for duty. 

The many exposures he experienced in this expedition brought on a fever, 
which compelled him to return home and relinquish military life for awhile. 
The experience he had gained of warfare in a rough country proved subse 
quently ol much value to him. 

When the British in New York City, about embarking for Boston, under- 
took to carr) off several cases of arms, a small party, with Lieutenant Willett 
at their head, arrested one oi the wagons at the lead of the train containing 
them. Notwithstanding he was expostulated with, nol onl) by the Mayor, 
David Mathews, but by several others, and even Gouverneur Morris, he pre- 
vented their taking them away by his determination and i.ciyc, and shortly 
afterward they came in play to equip the 1st New York Continental Regiment 
for service at home. It is also related of him, that, with the assistance of a 
few others, he took down the King's Arms f from the old New York City Hall, 
then in Broad Street. 



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The Revolutionarj War now having broken out, he offered Ins services 
i the Crown, and on the 28th oi [une, 1775, was appointed a Captain in 
Mi I ' 'ii". ill's ist New \ 11k Regiment, Continental Infantry, and pro- 
ceeded with it to join General Richard Montgomery in the Expedition to 
* '.in. ula. 

After the capture oi 1 iconderoga, in May, by Colonel Ethan Allen, Ins regi- 
m< 111 was stationed there until ii moved on to St. Johns, where, after escorting 
the prisoners taken at Chambli to I iconderoga, it remained until the expiration 
n! ii-. enlistment, in January, 177(1. 

Upon the Continental Establishment of the New York Quota he was, on the 
_msi oi November, 177(1, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel oi the 3d New York 
Ri nenl C< onel Peter Gansevoort's and stationed al Fort Constitution, 
until the 18th of May, 1777, when it marched up the Mohawk to the Oneida 
. irrying place (Fori Stanwix), where he had already been stationed under Gen- 
eral John Stanwix during the French War, arriving there on the 29th inst. 
The fort having now gone to ruin, they rebuilt it, and named it alter General 
Schuyler. \ large supply of ammunition, supplies and an additional force of 
nindred troops, arriving on the 2d of August, had scarcely come into it, 
when Si) John Johnson and Coltmel Barry St. Leger, with the British troops 
and savages, arrived. The garrison, consisting of about sever, hundred and 
fifty nun, prepared themselves n> maintain the post, so important to the safety 
ol Ubany and the Northern Army, under G neral Schuyler, then disputing the 
advance of the British invasion from Canada, under Genera> John Burgoyne, 

t'n the (tli ol August, St. Leger opened lire on the fort, which continued 
foi two days, when two messengers came in with the intelligence that Genera' 
Herkimer was hurrying up with the Tryon County Militia to raise the 
St. Leger going to intercept them, Lieutenant-Colonel Willett, with two hundred 
and fifty men, was sent out by Co Gansevoort to reconnoitre. He sallied 
forth, spoil nemy's camp, and brought back into the fort five British 

flags and most of their stores, camp equipage and baggage, without the loss of 
a man. 

In commemoration ol which the following was adopted in Congress, on 

the (th ol ( October, 1777 : 

" AV-. ■. '. . .-.:', Thai Congress have a iust sense ol the distinguished merit of Lieutenant' 

Willett for a repeated instance oi liis braver) and conduct in his late successful sa > m 

the enemy investing I i>it Schuyler; and that the Commissary-General ol Military Stores be 

directed to procure an ■> rd, and present the same u> Willett in the 

name of these United States. By ordei ol Congress. 

" JOHN HANCOCK, . 

Herkimer's army, too rash in their desire to relieve Co ' Ganse- 
voort, were attacked in ambush by Sir John Johnson and his savages, while 





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crossing a low, swampy piece of ground covered with trees and underbrush. 
Here the fearful battle of Oriskany was fought and lost, and the brave Gen- 
eral Herkimer laid down for his country his life. The siege of the fort was 

now resumed, and St. Leger demanded, in vain, its surrender. Colour/ Ganse- 
voort now desiring to get word to General Schuyler to send up some assistance, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Willett and Lieutenant Stockwell courageously volunteered 
to pass through the enemy's line. They crossed the Mohawk River on the 
night of the 10th of August, with only a few crackers and a canteen of rum 
in their pocket, and after escaping the vigilant eye of the red man, arrived at 
daybreak, on their second day out, at the German Flats, where they were 
informed that Arnold's Brigade were hurrying up to Colonel Gansevoort's 
relief. The savages under Sir John Johnson learning this from Hans Yost 
Schuyler — the spy — forsook St. Leger, who, unable to make Colonel Ganse- 
voort surrender, abandoned the siege, and the whole posse of his elegant 
troops and savages fled hack to Canada. 

Colonel Gansevoort going to Albany, Lieutenant-Colonel Willett was now left 
in command of the fort until the following September, when he went to visit Ins 
family, who were at Fish Kill, and afterward General Washington at White Marsh, 
here he remained until January, 177S, when he returned to his command. 

In the following June, he was sent with dispatches to the Commander in- 
Chief at Philadelphia. The British having just evacuated that city, he joined 
General John Morin Scott's Staff as an Aide, and went in pursuit of them, 
participating in the battle of Monmouth on the 28th. He there on the battle 
field overheard General Charles Lee say, while ordering the retrograde move- 
ment, " the enemy have too much Cavalry for us." After the battle he marched 
with the troops to New Brunswick and so to Kind's ferry, crossing the Hudson 
to Peekskill, where he remained, until he accompanied General John Sullivan 
on his Western expedition against the tories and Indians, taking part in the 
bloody engagement of Chemung on the 29th of August, 1779. In the follow- 
ing Winter, while the army lay in huts at Valley Forge, he was ordered with 
live hundred men and one field piece, to cross over to Staten Island and si 
the stores the British had there under the charge of Colonel Van Bushkirk. 
This he accomplished, returning with seventeen loads of spoils. 

Washington wrote to him from Headquarters, dated the 24th ol October, 

1 780, as follows : 

"Sir 1 longress have ii in contemplation to reduce the number of regiments; but tin- mode 
or terms on which the deranged officers are to go out are not yet fixed. It will give me great 
pleasure to see an officer of your merit retained in service ; bul your determination to submit 
cheerfully to any regulations which may be deemed necessary for the public good, is very laudable 
and the surest mark of a disinterested, worthy i itizen. I have not heard anything of tin- formation 
of a Legion. Colonel Hazen's Regiment is the only one of the independent Corps of Infantry 
which Congress propose keeping up." 



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Governor George Clinton, after the reduction of the New York Quota to 
two regiments, offered two additional regiments of levies to the Government to 
protect the northwestern frontiers of the State of New York, which Congress 
accepted. ( )ne of them was placed, on the 28th of April, 1781, under the com- 
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Marinus Willett (Commandant), and called the 5th 
New York Regiment. Relieving Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, in July of that 
year, he made his headquarters at Fort Rensselaer, defeating Joseph Brant* 
and die Tories in the engagements of Corey's Town and Johnstown, and at 
Canada Creek, where that scourge of the frontier. Colonel Walter Butler, fell 
with a bullet in Ins lira in. For these services, Albany, on the 19th of July, 1781, 
extended to him the " freedom of the City." 

Retiring from the army after the peace, he was elected, in. 1784, Sheriff of 
the City and Count) oi New York, which office he held for four years. 

At the request of Washington he undertook that perilous journey to adjust 
the existing difficulties with the Creek Indians, about the tract of land on the 
Oconee, which the State of Georgia claimed. With a servant and two horses 
he embarked in a sloop from New York, on the 15th of March, 1790, for 
Charleston, S. C, where he arrived after a rough voyage of fourteen days. 
From there lie traveled on horseback, with his servant and baggage in a sulky, 
and after many adventures through the wilds of Georgia and upper Florida, 
arrived at " Hickory Ground" the residence of their principal Chief, Colonel 
M'Giilivray, on the 4th of May. Remaining there and partaking of their 
"black drink," after delivering his big talk at their Council, from the Great 
Father, General George Washington, he on the 1st of June set out for home, 
accompanied by Colonel M'Giilivray, his nephew, two servants and eight 
•• braves" ; on the 21st of July, arriving at the " Coffee House '' in New York 
City, they were received by the Tammany Society, in fall regalia, and 
escorted to see General Washington, then President of the United States. 
After visiting Governor Clinton, they repaired to the "City Tavern," where an 
elegant entertainment awaited them. 

Colonel Willett declined a position with rank of Brigadier-General, proffered 
him by the Secretary of War in 1792, to fight against the Indians in the 
Northwest. 

In 1S07 lie was elected the Mayor of \r\\ York City. 

The Society at his decease issued the following : 

" General Order. New York, August 23, 1S30. 

" The President, with deep and sincere regret, announces to the members of the Society the 
death of their venerable and esteemed friend and brother, Colonel Marinus Willett, who departed 
this life last evening. Colonel Willett commenced his military career in the Colonial service of 



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THE SOCIETY OF Mil CINCINNATI. 35 1 

l lie llritish Government, in the reign of George the 2d, was actively engaged in the northern and 
western frontiers of this Slate in the French war (of 175(1), and was present at the battle of Lake 
1 ieorge, where ihe lirst Lord Howe was killed. I ' pon the breaking out of the War of the Revo- 
lution. Colonel Willie! joined the standard and entered the service of his country, in which it was 
his good f 01 tune to be highly distinguished and useful. He was a volunteer at the battle of Mon- 
mouth, on the 28th June, 1778, when the British forces under General 'Sir I bury Clinton were 
defeated; lie was eminently distinguished in the siege of Fort Stanwix, and also at the battle of 
Johnstown (Montgomery County), on the 25th of 1 (ctober, 1781, in both of which he commanded. 

" Colonel W'Mell continued in the Revolutionary Ainu until the close of the War of Indepen 
dence, commanding al that time the 5th Regiment ; he was remarkable for personal bravery, 
military enterprize, and energy of cha'racter. 

" In private life Colonel Willett was one of the most amiable of men, and after the war held 
several civil offices, the last of which was the Mayoralty of the City. 

" The mend ers of the Society are directed to wear the usual badge of mourning in honor of 
Colonel Willett for thirty days. They are also respectfully invited to attend the funeral of their 
deceased companion to morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, from his late- 
residence, No. 5S Broome Slreet, between Cannon and I ewis Streets. By order of 

" Charles Graham, Colonel RICHARD VARICK, 

" Secretary. President." 

By his first wife he had but one child, Marinus, who became a surgeon in the 
United States service, but died unmarried. His second wife was Mary Pease ; 
by her he had no issue. After her decease he married Margaretta Bancker, by 
whom he had lour sons and one daughter, Margaretta (Mrs. James H. Ray). 
His name appears in the Half pay Roll. 

Colonel Willett was buried in Trinity Church-yard, New York City, with 
military honors, and ninety otitis in commemoration of the years of his life- 
were fired on the' Battery; Colonels Robert Troup, Nicholas Fish, John Trum- 
bull, Aaron Ogden, Majot James Fairlie, Jacob Morton, John l'intard and Mr. 
Dominick, acting as the pall-bearers. 

MARINUS WILLETT, M. I)., his eldest son, was admitted in 1831. He 
married Caroline Bronson, and died on the 17th of June, 1840, leaving two 
sons .nid two daughters. 

MARINUS WILLETT (Reverend), eldest son of the last, was admitted 
in 1842, served as Secretary of this Society for several years, and in 1880 was 
elected its Chaplain. He married Elizabeth A. (" ittendon, of New York, 
resided .it Byrum Point, Conn., and died at Saratoga Springs on the 23d of 
February, t88i, leaving two suns and one daughter. 

ROBERT WILSON 

Ensign 1st New York Regiment. 

Born in New York State. Died in 1811. 

He was early trained to a border life, with his relation, Captain James 
Gregg, whose name is familiar in the regions of the Mohawk Valley. After 



35 2 I H I SOCIF. I \ OF I'HE CINC1NN \ n 

the New \"ork Regiments were organized for the war, under the Act of Con- 
gress, mi the 24th of March, 1770, he enlisted in Gregg's Company, of the 3d 
New York, on the 29th of January, 1777, as a fifer, and on the 26th of 
November, 1780, he was elected its Sergeant, Appointed Ensign of the 
Fourth Company of the 1st New York Regiment— CoAw/ Van Schaick's — on 
the 29th of June, 1 7S1. 

( »n the Kith of October following, he was selected at the surrender of Lord 
Cornwallis, at Vorktown, to receive the llritish colors, as the following record 
shows : 

1 In- delivery of the colors ol the several Regiments, twenty-eight in number, was next 
performed For this purpose twenty-eight i'.ritish Captains, each bearing a flag in a case, were 
drawn up in line. ( Ipposite to them, at a distance of six paces, twenty eight American Sergeants 
were placed in line to receive the colors. Wilson, ol Clinton's Brigade, the youngest 

commissioned officer in the Army — being only eighteen year-, oi age was appointed by I 
Hamilton, the officer of the day. to conduct this interesting ceremony. When Wilson gave the 
order for the British Captains to advance two paces, to deliver up their colors, and the American 
Sergeant-- to advance two paces, to receive them, the former hesitated, and gave as a reason that 
they were unwilling to surrender their Hags to non-commissioned officers, Colonel Hamilton, who 
was at a distance, observed this hesitation, and rode up to inquire the ( ause I 'ti being informed, 
he willingly spared the feelings of the British Captains, and ordered / '.'- s n Wilson to receive them 
himself, and hand them to the American Sergeants."' 

After having been mustered out of the service, he settled in the central 
part of the State of New \ ork, then a wilderness, and subsequently became 
the Postmaster of the Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y. 

He married Amelia Dunham, by whom he had two sons, George Stuart and 
James Gregg, and two daughters, Jane, who died unmarried, and Ann (Mrs. 
Caleb McKeel . Ill- name appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 

ROBERT PRESTON WILSON, his grandson, of Buffalo, N. Y., was 

admitted in 1S76. 



JACOB WRIGHT 

Captain 2d New York Regiment. 

He was a resident of Jamaica, 1,. I,, chosen First Lieutenant of the Compan) 
of Minute Men raised in 1775. in Queens County, for the defence of the 
liberties of the American Colonies, and, soon afterwards, he is found serving as 
a Captain in Colonel Lasher's Regiment. 

Colonel James Livingston, having returned from the Canada Campaign, 
wrote to John Jay, Chairman of the Committee, on the 24th of August, 1776 
recommending him, and ''as prepared to raise .1 Company." 



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On the ist of July, 1 7 7 0, General John Morin Scott endorsed him, "as an 

excellent officer for a ( aptain in the new arrangement '' as follows : 

" Captain Wright, late of Lasher's Regiment, in my Brigade, has distinguished himself, ;is 

much by his cool, intrepid spirit, as by his zealous attachment to the American cause, and his 

modest, discreet and prudent behavior. 1 strong!} recommend him as .1 man who will do honor 
to his Countrj 

Appointed, upon the Continental Establishment of the Quotas, for the 

service, on the _-ist of November, 1776, Captain of the 2d New York Regiment 
— Colonel Van Cortlandt's — in which he continued until honorably mustered out 
in 17S2. 

During his life he served as a member of the Standing Committee, and his 
widow, Margaret, lor many \cars alter his decease, received aid from the fund. 
His name appeals on the Half-Pay Roll. 



EPHRAIM WOODRUFF 

Lieutenant zd New York Regiment. 

Dud on the 9th of July, 1S20. 

He entered the service as a Sergeant in Walker's Company, of the 4th New 
York Regiment — Colonel 11. 1'.. Livingston's — on the 1st of January, 1777. 
Appointed an Ensign in the same on the 9th of November, 1777, and jjromoted, 
alter the consolidation of the New York Regiments, to Lieutenant in the 2d 
New York Regiment — Colonel Van Cortlandt's— on the 1st of November, 1781, 
and served as such until honorably mustered out of the service with his 
regiment, 

After the war he appears to have been a resident of Sussex County, New 
Jersey. Hisname appears on the Half-Pay Roll. 



PETER WOODWARD 

Lieutenant New York Artillery. 

He was an original member of the Connectu ut Society, and having, at the 
Anniversary Meeting of the New York Stan So< iety, held on the 5tlr of July, 
1S02, produced satisfactory evidence of Ins membership, was accordingly 
admitted. 

Appointed on the 1st of February, 1777, a Second Lieutenant of the 2d Regi- 
ment, Continental Corps of Artillery — Colonel Lamb's — and assigned in tier- 



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shorn Mott's Company. Promoted to be First Lit i >l the same, on the 
23d of March, 1781, and on the 29th of June following, he was assigned to 
Thomas Machin's Company. Honorably discharged the service with a portion 
of his regiment on the 3d oi November. 1 7S ;. 

The archives of the Connecticut State Society, deposited in the Historical 
Society at Hartford, record him as a resident of New Haven. His name appears 
on the Half- Pay Roll. 



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DESCENDANTS 

of Originai Members of i nr Cincinnati Socn i \ i\ Franci vnd rm 
other States, who havi been umiirni n i m \i« York Stati 
Socn i \ 

|i>ll\ CROPPER, great-grandson of Lieut i John Cropper, 

late President of the Virginia Society, was admitted by the New York State 

Society in 1S74. 

JEAN BAPTISTE W GT STE D'AURIER, the eldest son of {Baron) 
d'Aurier, was elected by the New York State Society in [S36 .1 member; he 
failed to qualify by signing the Institution. His father was in 1825 admitted 
as an honorary member, at the request of La Fayette, he having accompanied 
the Allied Forces to Vmerica, and served under Rochambeau at the surrender 
oi Lord < lornwallis. 

11 IAS BOUDTNOT DAYTON was transferred to the New York Societ) 
in iS^;, having been admitted in 1808, in the succession ot' Ins father, B 
dier-Gi Elias Dayton, l>y the New Jersey Society. He died in 1846. 

{Succession in the .W.v /. So v.) 

FRANCIS VMEDE DE I'M was elected a member of the New York 
Mate Society '^n the 4th of July, 1S49, claiming to he the eldest maternal 
grandson ol Count Francis Joseph Paul de Grasse, the Admiral of the Allied 
French Meet. He died, without issue, in\ the 3d July, 1854, never having 
perfected his membership by signing the Roll of the Institution. 

EAR] DOUG] \s was admitted by the New York State Society in 1856, 
in right of his father. Captain Richard Douglas, an original member of the 
Connecticut Society. He died in 18.61. 

Alfred Dougi vs. Jr., his eldest son, succeeded him in 1 860, and died 
in 1877. 

PEDRO CI U DIO DTJ QUESNE made an application in 1S50 to the 

New York State Society to be admitted in right of Ins father, the Marquis 
Du Quesne, who, he claimed, was one of the Captains in the Allied French 



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Fleet. Ii was considered and favorablj entertained, but he neglected to avail 
himself of the honor or comply with the terms before his decease al Havana, 

( 'ii''. i. .Hi the |tli of I uly, 1 880 

DANIEL MACK W FRYE was admitted by the New York State Societ.3 
in iS;ii, in ri.ulii of his father, Ensign Frederick Frye, an original membei oi 
the Massachusetts So< ietj He died on the 8th of February, 1859. 

Frederick Frye, his eldest son, succeeded him cm the 4th of July, 1859 

and died on the 22d of J une, 1SS1, .11 New 1 Means, without issue. 

THEODORE CIA I'll was admitted by the New York State Society in 
[854, claiming to be the eldest male descendant of his maternal grandfather, 
Stephen Rochefontaine, who signed the parchment Roll oi the Institu- 
tion with Major-General Duportail's Engineer Corps at West Point, and wl ii h 

i- ih'\\ in the possession of the General Society. He died in Paris on the 3d <>( 

April, 1880, without issue. 

WILLIAM JONES HOPPIN was admitted by the New Vork State 

!\ in 1S75. in right of his maternal grandfather, Captain William Jones, an 

original membei of the Rhode Island State Society. He served for several 

years as a diplomatic representative of the United States, acting as Secretary 

ot I egation at the Conn o\ St. James, I ondon, England. 

FREDERICK JABEZ HUNTINGTON was admitted to the New Vork 

State Society in iS8o, in right of his great-grandfather, General 

iah Huntington, an original member and first President of the Connecticut 

So, lety. 

CHAR] is I AW rON,* the eldest son o( Doc/or William Lawton— who 
was stationed at West Point in 1700 was admitted by the New York State 
:v in 1 Sin. His application having been referred to a Committee, 
who reported favorably upon his claim without having, as was required 
under the By-laws of the Society, procured a proper certificate from the 
Sei etary oi the Massachusetts Society, stating that he was entitled to 
membership. The Soi iet) appears to have admitted him upon the supposition 
that he was the son of William Laughton, the Surgeon's Mate, ot < \ ose's 

i st Massachusetts Regiment, an original Member of the Massachusetts State 
Society. 

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Iii [878, the New York State Society refused to entertain the application 
tin admission of his eldest son, Alfred I.awton, as the rightful representative of 
Surgeon's Mate William Laughton, of the Massachusetts Society, their names 
not being identical. 

EDWARD PREBLE MARCELLIN, M.D., was admitted by the New 
York State Society in 1827, in right of his father, Lieutenant Claude Antoine 
Villet de Marcellin, an original member of the Pennsylvania Society. Doctor 
Marcelhn acted as the Secretary of the New York Society for several years, 
and died at Spottiswood, N. J., on the 25th of October, 1862, the Society 
attending his funeraj at Trinity Church, New York. 

HARRY MANIGAULT MORRIS, the eldest surviving son of Lewis 
Morris, Jr., was admitted by the New York State Society in 1875, in right of his 
grand-father, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Morris,* of the South Carolina Society. 

DAVID WASHINGTON CINCINNATUS OLYPHANT was admitted 
by the New York State Society in 181 1, in right of his father, David Olyphant, 
Director of the Military Hospitals of the South, and an original member of 
the South Carolina Society. 

David Olyphant, his eldest son, was elected to the succession in 1856, but 
he did not sign the Roll until 1865. He died in June, 1887. 

SAMUEL HOLDEN PARSONS was admitted by the New York State 
Society in 1858, in right of his father, Brigadier-General Samuel Holden 
Parsons, late President of the Connecticut Society. 

NATHAN PAYSON RICE, M I)., an hereditary member of the Massa- 
chusetts Society, was admitted by the New York State Society on the 4th ol 
July, i860, upon producing a certificate from the Secretary of that Society, 
stating that he was a member of it, representing in succession his grandfather, 
Major Nathan Rice, an original member, and evidence that he was now a 
resident of this Stale. 

HENRY FLOYD TALLMADGE was admitted by the New York State 
Society 111 1X50, in right of his father. Ma/or Benjamin Tallmadge, an original 
member of the Connecticut Soci< I \ 

Benjamin H. Tallmadge, his sou, succeeded him in [858, and died in 
1863. 



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358 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

WILLIAM B. THOMAS was admitted by the New York State Society in 
i8js, in right of his father, Doctor John Thomas, who, he claimed, was an 
original member of the Massachusetts Society, but whose name does not 
appear upon the original Roll of that State. 

Henry Livingston Thomas, his son, was admitted in the succession in 
1885, at the request of Mr. Fish, without the terms required by section 5 of 
By-Law IX. 

JOHN TORREY, Ml)., made application to be admitted and associated 
with the New Yoik State Society since the year 1823, but does not appear to 
have subscribed his name to its Roll until 1X54. He claimed the right of 
admission through his uncle, Joseph Torrey, Lieutenant-Colonel (by brevet) of 
Hazen's Regiment, and who signed the parchment Roll of the Institution with 
that regiment, and which is now in the possession of the General Society. He 
acted as the Treasurer of the New York Society until his decease on the 10th 
of March, 1S73. 

Herbert Gray Torrey, his eldest son. succeeded him in 1873. 

HENRY WARD was admitted by the New York State Society in 1S33, in 
right of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Ward, an original member of the 
Rhode Island Society. He died in 1X42. 

Hi nry Hali. Ward, his eldest son, succeeded him in 1842, and served as 
the Treasurer of this Society from 1X55 until his decease, which occurred at 
Saratoga Springs on the 27th of August, 1872. He died unmarried. 



THE SOCIETY OF III! CINI IWAII. 359 



DESCENDANTS 

of Officers of im: Revolutionary Army, admitted for life b\ i hi 
New York Stati Socu in under phe Resolution oi rm j i e i of 
Jul v, 1857.* 



JAMES \\ \ rSON AVERELL, grandson of Colonel Samuel B. Webb, an 
original member of the Connecticut Society, was admited in 1857. Died in 
1876. 

ALFRED DOUGLAS, son of Captain Richard Douglas, an original mem- 
ber of the Connecticut Society, was admitted in i860. Died in 1869. 

SAMUEL C. ELLIS, M.D., grandson of Captain William Will, neks— an 
Aide-de Camp on the Staff of Lord Stirling — but not a member of the Society 
of the Cincinnnati, was admitted in 1859. Died in 1874. 

PETER GANSEVOORT, youngest son of Colonel Peter Gansevoort, an 

original member of the New York Society, was admitted in 1858. Died in 

1S74. 

WILLIAM OGDEN GILES, grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Aquila Giles. 

an original member of the New York Society, was admitted in i860. 

WILLIAM [RVING GRAHAM, great-nephew ol ( 'aptain Charles Graham, 

an original member of the New York Society, was admitted in i860, and 
served for several years .is Secretary. Died in 1871. 

JOHN FRANKLIN GRAY, M.D., great-nephew of Captain Silas Gray, 
an original member ol the Mew York Society, was admitted in i860, and 
served for many years as the New York State Society's Physician. Died in 
1882. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Jr., grandson of General Alexander Ham 
ikon, an original member of the New York Society, was admitted in i860. 
Upon the decease of his father in 1876, he became the eldest in tin succession. 



Si e .i .'.-.'. r ' 



1 111 SOC11 1 \ OF I 111 CINCINNATI. 

WILLIAM PRAY LEE, grandson of Captain John Pray, an original 
nu-mbcr of the Massachusetts Society, was admitted in iS6o. Died in i s 

STUYVESANT IK ROY, grandson of Major Nicholas Fish, an original 

member of the New York Society, was admitted in iJ 

GEORGE WEBB MOREL! , grands Colonel 

Samuel B. Webb, an original member of the Connecticut Society, was admitted 
in 1S58. 1 >ied in 1SS3. 

1 1 MIX \l II ma, grandson of Major Nicholas Fish, an original member 
of the New York Society, was admitted in is 

CHAR] is HENRY \\ \.RD, grandson ol Lieut 1.11 I Samuel Ward. 

an original member of the Rhode Island Society, was admitted in 18 

Wll 1.1AM GREENE W \K1> . V G . S N. Y.), -rand- 

son of Li \nt-( Samuel Ward, an original member of the Rhode 

Island Society, was admitted in 1S00. 

\l I- \ WIH'.K STEW \K T V\ EBB (late Brevet Major- General, U. S. ./.I. 
grandson ol 1 Samuel B. Webb, an original member oi the Connecticut 

Society, was admitted in 1S60. 

JAMES WATSON WEBB (Hon.. youngest son oi 1 Samuel !'.. 

Webb, an original member of the Connecticut Society, was admitted in 1858. 
Pied in 1SS4. 

ROBERT STEWART WEBB, grandson 01 Col tel Samuel 1'.. Webb, an 
original member of the Connecticut Society, was admitted in [8 

STEPHEN HOGEBOOM WEBB, second sonol 1 Samuel B.Webb, 

an original member vi the Connecticut Society, was admitted in i860. Died 
in 1S73. 

WALTER WIMPLE WEBB, third son ol Colonel Samuel B. Webb, an 
original member of the Connecticut Society, was admitted in 1S5S. Died in 
1S76. 

\\ \ rS< >N W EBB, grandson of Colonel Samuel B. Webb, an original mem- 
ber of the Connecticut Society, was admitted in 1S60. Died in 1S76. 



I 111 SOCIETY "I I III i IN< i\ \ \ II. 36] 



o I lie E K s 



NEW YORK S I A IT SOCIE IN 

.■1 llll 

CINCINNATI. 

Elected 1 1 1 \ 5 m, 1 886. 



President, ...... Hon. 11 win roN Fish. 

Vice-President Alexander Hamu roN 

S tary, John Schuyi er. 

Treasurer, ..... Alexander James Clinton. 

Assistant Treasun .... Edward William Tapp. 

Chaplain Rev. Manch - Holmes lii 1 i"\. 

Standing ( 'ommittte. 

Hon. John Cochrane, Matthew Ci vrkson, 

Thomas Witter Chrystie, William Henrv Crosby, 

Anthon\ Walton Whiti Evans, Richard Varick. Di Witt, 

Charles Scoti McKnight, John Rhinelander Steven; 

Delegates to the General Society. 

lion. Hamu i"\ Fish, John Schi \ 1 1 k, 

Hon. John Co< hrane, \\\ xander Hamu roN, 

Alexander [ami Zlinton. 

Alternates. 
fHOMAS Witter Chrystie, William Henr\ Crosby. 



362 



1111. SOCIETY OF riir. CINCINNATI. 



LIST OF MEMBERS 



New York State Society, fi ly, 1886. 



Eldest Mai, Descendants of Original Members of the New York 

State Society. 



Aiimi [TED 

[834 II win kin Fish {President and President- Gener 
1842 A \ 1 iio\ n \\ vi roN White Evans, . 
1849 John \ \\ \ ors r, 

1853 Charles Scott McKnight 

185(1 Charles Grah km 

1858 John Co< hr \\k (L<i/t- Brigadier General U. S. 
[858 Edward William Tapp Xssistant Treasurer), 
[860 George Stewart Belknap, .... 
1865 John Sqhuyler {Secretary and Treasurer-Gei, 

181.5 \\ 11 1 1 \m Hi m;v Crosby 

1S67 Thomas Witter Chrystii 

[868 Ri< hard V *rick De Wi r r, 

r868 C vrroi 1 Livingston, .... 

1872 John B vrnes \ vrick, .... 

1 874 John Rhin el ander Stevens, 

1 875 Alexander H vmmond, .... 

1875 Dixon Gi dni \ Hughes 

1876 William Wali v< i Taulman, 

1876 Alexander Hamilton {Vice-President), . 
1870 Robert Preston Wilson, .... 

1877 Willi \m Linn Reese 

187S A 1 ex vnder I \mi - Clinton ( Treasurer), 
r S78 Thomas De Witt Cuyler, 

1878 J amis Jared I ,ogan, ..... 
[879 Matthew Clarkson, 
187.1 John Tyli r ( '..>ri u, . 

1879 How \ i;i> Tn 1 rsoN, 
187.) John Beekman Westbrook, 

1880 James Van Dyk, 

GRIFFI I'll Pritch VRD ('.Kill I 111, . 

[881 Mancius Holmes Hutton, D.D. Chaplain), 
18S1 William Richmon d I' \i bo r, ... 

[882 John Varick Dodge (Rev.), 
1882 Henry Brockholst Ledyard, 

1 8S 1 Hi \i;y K.1I RSTED BlCKER, 



Residence 



7l) 



251 East 17th suvt t. 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 

. Jersey City, N. J. 

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Hoboken, N. J. 

I, 7 East 62d Street. 

. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Grove City, Minn. 



•nil), 63 William Street. 

Elizabeth, N. J. 

\. wburgh, N. Y. 

. Albany, N. Y. 

. New York City. 

. Manchester, N. H. 

2. 1 \\ est 39th Streel . 

[slip, N. Y 

. Jersey City, N. J. 

Nyack, X. V. 

Irvington, N. Y 

. Buffalo, X. Y. 

Flatbush, X. Y. 

. 71 Wall Street. 

. Philadelphia, Pa. 

Newburgh, X. Y. 

15 West 45th Street 

Atlanta, ( la. 

. Rhinebeck, X. Y. 

. Peekskill, N \ . 

I ,ead City, I >akota. 

Cincinnati, ( >hio. 

New Brunswick, X. J. 

Providence, R. I. 

Evansville, Ind. 

Detroit. Mich. 

Montclair, N. J. 



i n i i II 1 1 I \ OF I III CINCINNATI, 363 

1885 James Stevenson Van Corti win, . . Van Cortlandt Manor. 

1885 Burr Wendell, ....... Cazenovia, N. Y. 

1SS5 I'm 1 Ernesi I'm \i \nn, M. D.. . . .St. Luke's Hospital. 

1885 De' Grasse Bostwick Fowler, .... Baltimore, Md. 

[886 Roberi Burnet, Wesl Coldenham, N. Y. 

[886 Georgi Bezaleei Howe, . IWest [23d Street. 

[886 William Swetland Ketchum, . . . Plattsburgh, N. Y, 

[886 George Hunt Pendleton, . United States Minister to Germany. 

Eldest Male Descendants of Original Members of the State Societies opposite 

their respective Names. 

1 S5 j John Kj vrne^ Rodgers, . . Pennsylvania, Ontonagon, Mich. 

1857 Wickham Hoffman, . . . Connecticut, 60 Wall Street 

[860 John Wheelwright Greaton, . Massachusetts, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

i860 Nathan Payson Rice, M.D , . Massachusetts, 59 Liberty Street. 

[865 l>\\iii Olyphant, . . . South Carolina, 28W. 17th Street 

[873 Herbert Gray Torrey, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1S7.4 John Cropper, .... Virginia, 3 East 38th Street. 

1875 William Jones Hoppin, . . . Rhode Island, 01 Pine Street. 

1875 Harry Manigault Morris, . South Carolina, 49 W. 38th Street. 

[880 Frederick Jabez Huntington, . Connecticut, Norwich, Conn. 

1884 Robert Percy Alden, . . Connecticut, Cornwall, Penn. 

[885 Henry Livingston Thomas, Massachusetts, Washington, I >. ('. 

/ f, Members Admitted under the Rule of [857. 

i860 A11 xandi r Snu \ki Webb | Wajoi General), . 15 Lexington Avenue. 

1S60 Roberi Stewart Webb u Lafayette Place. 

i860 Charles Henri Ward, ..... . 165 Broadway. 

i860 William Gri 1 m W ird (Brigadier-General), Staten Island, N. N . 

1S60 John Neilson, ...... New Brunswick, N. J. 

i860 Stuyvesant l.i Roy, ...... Newport, R. I. 

i860 William Ogden Giles, . . • Kingsbridge, N. ^ City, 

Honorary Member. 
1 -.) William Te< umseh Sherman {General U. S. A.), New York City. 



364 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



INSTITUTION 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Now in the possession of the General Society and written on parchment: 

\ n 1 ■ k den ■ igned twio 

Go. Washington. 

William Heath, Major-General. 

B amin Lincoln, 

Robert Howe, 

Vitli. mael Greene, 

\le\an'r McDougall, " 
Steuben, 
Henrj Knox, 
*Duportail, 

Mordecai Gist, Brigadier-General. 
Armaiul. Ma a Rouerie, Brigai .?/. 

John Paterson, A' <//. 

Edward Hand, " ami Adjutant. 

John Greaton, 
Rufus Putnam, 
Elias Dayton, 
jedediah Huntington, 

Timothy Pickering, termaster- General. 

1 leman Swift, 1 tent. 

Philip Van Cortlandt, Colo/tel 2,: \ 
1 lenry Jackson, 1 'olonel \: setts R 

Samuel Shaw, Cap ' ' • A 

William Hull. Licutenan 6 Massachusetts R 

ph Pettengill, 
Samuel Whitwell, s 
Moses Knap, M 
John Whiting, 
Cornelius \ an 1 >yck, I 1 <nel. 

r Huntington, 



I 111 SOCI1 1 \ Ol I 111 CINCINNATI. 

Samuel B. Webb, i E 

Peter Woodward, I Veto I 

5 Nicola, i invalid). 

John Brooks, .' 

Hugh \1 ixwell, .' i '. ■ •-.- i - 

Walter Stewart, Colonel, \ 

: Engineers, signed to Counterp:irt of the Instituti 
♦Duportail, M 
*Gouvion I 
I aumoy, 
ECosciuszko, 

Villefranche, Lieut ( //<•/. 

Wuibert, I <nelof th Continental ( 

Murnan, Major of Engineers. 
Rochefontaine, .1/ . • 
1 'Enfant, 

Ha.i n's Regimi \ i . 
William Stuart, Li ute . 
James Anderson, Lieutenant. 
Nicholas Schuyler, Surgeon. 
Palmer Cady, Lieutenant. 
Germain Diony, Lieutenant. 
Benjamin Mooers, Lieutenant ana idjutant. 
Edward Chinn, Lieutenant and Paymaster. 
William Torrey, Lieutenant. 
Edward Bugbee, Lieutenant. 
Zaccheus Peaslee, Lieutenant. 
I ewis'Gosselin, Lieutenant. 

Thomas Thompson, Lieutena Quartermaster. 

\iiioinc Paulient, ( 'aptain. 
Francois Monty, Lieutenant. 

I Ik- above nam d after the following: 

Mi (ses I l.i rat. 

Edward Am i 11, Lieutenant-Colonel {commanding). 
Joseph Torrey, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Lawrence Olivier, Major (by brevet). 
William Satterlee, Captain. 
William Mimson, Captain. 
Richard I .loj d, Captain. 



;0(> I III 50CIF. IN 01 I HE CINCINN \ M. 

James I luncan, < 'aptain. 
Thomas Pry, Captain. 
Clement Gosselin, Captain. 

Anthony Selin, Captain. 
Francis Gilmart, Lieutenant. 
Amable Boileau, Lieutenant. 

Andrew I ,ee, Lieutenant. 

Noah Lee, Captain. 

Murdock McPherson, Lieutenant. 

The last two names are attached to this lisi <m a separate piece ol paper 

Officers of General Armand's Corps. 
*Armand, Marquis de la Rouerie. 
J. Ternan, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
George Schaffner, Major. 
I [enry Bedken, < 'aptain. 
Le Brun De Bellecour, Captain. 
I >e Bert I )e Majon, ( 'aptain. 
fohn Sharp, ( 'aptain. 
Augustus Brissault, Captain. 
Baptiste Verdier, Lieutenant. 
I )e Fi mte\ rieux, Lit utenant. 
Godfried Swartz, Lieutenant. 
I Icni \ Riedell, Lieutenant. 
William Gitling, ( 'ornet. 
Jervuturas, Lieutenant. 
Richard Head, Lieutenant. 
P. B. B. Rassaneau, ( 'ornet. 
William Murdock, Comet. 
Cas. Schaffner, ( 'ornet. 
James McDougall, Cornet. 
1 1 iln) Morris, Sui 
Charles i Ireer, Sti ' ■' '> l/.rA\ 
[oseph Smith, ( '01 net. 



Lewis De I'ontiere, Captain oj Horse, Aide-dt Camp to Steuben. Date of commission, 
tSth ol February, 1778. Entered b) thi Secretary General on the list ol Foreign Officers in the 

lii.ck of minutes. 







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, m V 01 mi ' IN< INNATl. 



367 



I 1 11 Dl 

L-ORDRE AMERICAIN DE CINCINNATUS 

I N \'K VNI I . ' 

s E Le Chevalier de la Luzerne, Ministre Plenipotenliaire. 
S. E. Le Seigneur Gerard, dernier Ministre Plenipotenliaire. 

Amiraux el Commandants de la Marine. 
L. E. le Comte df'Estaing. 
I,. E. /••• O'/z/A- </«• Grasse. 
L. E. Le Comte de Barras. 
L. E. £« Chevalier Destouches. 

Marechaux de Camp. ( BANCS 

Le Comte de Rochambeau, Commandant-en-Che/.. 

le Baron de Viomenil, Lieutenant- General 3,°' 

2,000 

/,('//<v <aliei ,/<( 'hasK'llux. 

. 2,000 
Le Comte de Viomenil 

2,000 
Le Comte de Saint Simon 

2,000 
De Choisy ' . 

De BevilU-. 

Brigadiers >•" \»" rique. 

2,000 

Le Co v d, Custines 

2,000 

/., Due de Lauzun 

. 2,000 
Z«- /?«<• afc Laval ••• 

Le Comte </*Antichamps. 

2,000 
Z<? Marquis ,/e Rostaing 

Desaudrouines. 

i,5°° 

D'Alinville 

1,500 

La Vallette.. 

Tous servi en Amerique avec le grade .le Col 1 

1,000 
Marquis J. Saint Maime 

Comte Chn tien, S s /V/m /' 

1,000 

Cw/v <?< Pondens 

1 ,000 

/ mte rf'Arrot 

. 1,000 
; 'icomte de Rochambeau 

Comte Guillaume, des DeuA /•■■/its. 

. . 1,000 
Vicomtc de Noailles 

l"aken from fti" " Girardot*s 1 k. 



3^8 I III 01 M IV OF THE CINCINNATI. 

PRANCS. 

( 'omte de ( Iharlus 1,000 

Comic Flechin. 

Robert Dillon 1,000 

Querenet, de la Combe, des fngenieurs, 

C 'omte de Segur 1,000 

('in///,' de Fersen. 

Prince ,/c Broglie 1,000 

Sc hclilon. 

Comte de I »amas 1,000 

Comte de Vauban 1,000 

Marquis de Champcenets 1,000 

Paris, le 7 Janvier, 1784. 

(Signed) LE C TE DE ROCHAMBEAU. 

Tous ceux dont les somraes sont en blanc etaient absents, mais probablement adhcreront 
a la merae deliberation. 

Liste des officers dans le cas d'etre proposes pour etre admis dans I 'association des Cinein- 
natus, d'apres le reglement de la Societe Generate du 15 May, 17S4. 

Le Baron de l'Estrade. 

Lr ( 'hevalier de Lameth. 

M. de Tarle. 

M. de Menouville. 

Le Baron de Saint Simon. 

Le Chevalier de Mirabeau. 

M. de Montesquieu. 

Le Vicomte Dosmond 

.!/. de MacMahon. 

Lc Chevalier de Tarle. 

Lr Comte de Loncenil. 

Le Comte de Chabannes. 

Le Baron rf'Esebeck. 

M. d' Anselme. 

M. de Rii ey. 

M. Lynch. 

Lc Vicomte de Vandreuil. 

Le Vicomte de Fleury. 

Supplement de deux officers du 15 Aoust, 1 7 s ^ proposee pour le ordre Cincinnatus. 

( joulet, de la Tour. 
Marquis Jc Montmort. 

(Signed) C TE DE .ROCHAMBEAU. 






THE SOCIETY OF MM CINCINNATI. 369 

Capitains et Commandants de Vaisseaux. 

Resolu. dans I'assemblee generate du la Societe de Cincinnati 

du lundy 1 7 May. 1784. 

M. de Tarlr. 

Le Chevalier de Lameth {Colonel par brevet). 

Lc Comic de Sonneville. 

Le Comte de la Touche. 

Lc Comic de Kergariou. 

Lc Chevalier de 1'F.guille. 

Lc Chevalier du Quesne. 

Lc Comte de Travalais. 

Lc Chevalier Maulevrier. 

Le ( 'hevalicr de Vallongne. 

Le Comte de Capellis. 

Le Chevalier de la Perouse. 

{Signed) (',. WASHINGTON, Pres. 



Lieutenant-Colonel de Bouchet was admitted by the (ieneral Society May 
17th, 1784. 

Le Marquis de Bouilld was admitted by the General Society May 1 8th, 1787. 



